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Cinque

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname from Italian.

Noun

1
A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
"Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix."
2
the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English cink, from Middle French cinq, from Latin cīnque, variant of quīnque. The archaic spelling cinq is taken from modern French cinq, whereas the standard spelling is perhaps influenced by Italian cinque or a misspelling of the French. The variant pronunciation /sæŋk/ is based on Modern French. Doublet of fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian Cinque.

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