Latin

Alternative forms

• Symbol: V

Numeral

quīnque ‎(indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) five; 5
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.439–440

     Iam tempora Titan quinque per autumnos repetiti duxerat anni

     Now Titan had led time through five autumn seasons

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Lucas.9.16

     acceptis autem quinque panibus et duobus piscibus respexit in caelum et benedixit illis et fregit et distribuit discipulis suis ut ponerent ante turbas

     Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *cinque (see there for further descendants)

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

• quinque in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quinque in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• QUINQUE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quinque”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi
    
  • he has been absent five years: quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abest
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press