five

English Online Dictionary. What means five‎? What does five mean?

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Five, FIVE

Etymology

Borrowed from English five.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfai̯f], like fife

Noun

five

1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 5.

   Synonym: pantafive (ITU/IMO)

References

English

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 5 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: V

Etymology

From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɪv/
  • (Southern US) IPA^(key): [fäːv]
• enPR: fīv
• Rhymes: -aɪv

Numeral

five

1. A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
2. Describing a group or set with five elements.

Related terms

• fifth

Translations

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

five (plural fives)

1. The digit/figure 5.

2. A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.

3. Anything measuring five units, as length.

4. A person who is five years old.

5. Five o'clock.

6. A short rest, especially one of five minutes.

7. (basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• vife

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fife, fif, fyve, vif, vive

Etymology

From Old English fīf, from Proto-West Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Though Old English fīf was usually indeclinable, inflected forms of it are far from unknown. Forms with final -v- originate from intervocalic voicing in these inflected forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːf/, /fiːv/

Numeral

five

1. five

Related terms

• fifte
• fiftene
• fifty

Descendants

• English: five
• Scots: five, fif, fife, fyve
• Yola: veeve

References

• “fīve, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Scots

Alternative forms

• fehv (Dundee)

Etymology

From Middle English five, from Old English fīf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɪv/, /fəiv/
• (Dundee) IPA^(key): /fɛːv/ (sometimes spelled fehv)

Numeral

five

1. five

References

• “five, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French fievre, from Latin febris, from Proto-Italic *feɣʷris, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰris. Cognates include French fièvre and Norman fièvre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːf/

Noun

five f (plural fives)

1. fever
2. delirium

References

• Simon Stasse (2004) Dictionaire Populaire de Wallon Liegeois‎^[4], Société Royale Littéraire "La Wallonne"