viitonen

< viisi (“five”) +‎ -nen

viitonen

1. The digit five
2. Something that can be identified with the number 5; e.g. a number five tram, or the player nr. 5 in a football team. When used as modifier in compound terms contracts to viitos-.

   Kokkonen juoksee viitosradalla.

   Kokkonen runs on track number five.

   Viitonen kulkee vain aamulla ja iltapäivällä.

   (The tram/bus number) five only runs in the morning and in the afternoon.

3. Something that is valued as five units of something, such as a five-euro bill, five of spades, a five in a game of dice.

   Voitko lainata minulle viitosen?

   Can you lend me a five?

   Valttiviitonen kaataa herttaässän.

   A five of trumps beats the ace of hearts,

4. quintuplet (one of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth)
5. (card games, in the plural) five of a kind (five cards of the same rank, only possible if more than one deck or at least one joker is used)
6. (sports, colloquial) Synonym of 5 000 metrin juoksu.

• (five of a kind): viisi samaa

• (poker hand): hai, pari, kaksi paria, neljän suora, neljän väri, kolmoset, suora, väri, täyskäsi, neloset, värisuora, kuningasvärisuora

• luuviitonen

• inventio, inventoi