cinq

• cinque

• IPA^(key): /sɪŋk/

cinq (plural cinqs)

1. (archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.

From Middle French cinq, from Old French cinc, from Vulgar Latin *cinque, dissimilation of Classical Latin quīnque (“five”), from Proto-Italic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe, cognate with Portuguese and Spanish cinco, Italian cinque.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃k/ (Paris: [sɛ̃kʲ])
• (archaic, before a consonant) IPA^(key): /sɛ̃/

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• Homophones: scinque, scinques

cinq

1. five

   Mon père a cinq sœurs.

   My father has five sisters.

• cinq-à-sept
• cinquante
• cinquième
• quint

• Guianese Creole: senk
• Haitian Creole: senk
• Karipúna Creole French: sẽk
• Louisiana Creole French: senk
• Mauritian Creole: senk
• Seychellois Creole: senk

• “cinq” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cinc
• cincq

From Old French cinc.

• IPA^(key): (in isolation or before a vowel) /sĩːk/, (before a consonant) /sĩː/

cinq (invariable)

1. five

• French: cinq (see there for further descendants)

cinq

1. Alternative form of cinc: five