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Translingual

Etymology

From English five

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?if] ^[sic]

Numeral

five

1. Code word for the digit 5 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word pantafive

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 f?f (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”) (compare West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm), from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e (compare Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B pi?, Lithuanian penki, Russian ???? (pjat?), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek ????? (pénte), Armenian ???? (hing), Persian ???? (panj), Sanskrit ???? (páñca)). Doublet of cinque, punch, pimp, and Pompeii.

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?v
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /fa?v/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /fä?v/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /f?ev/
• Rhymes: -a?v

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.

   He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.

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

   Can anyone here change a five?

3. Anything measuring five units, as length.

   All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.

4. A person who is five years old.

   The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.

5. Five o'clock.

   See you at five.

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

   Take five, soldier.

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• vife

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fife, fif, vif, fyve

Etymology

From Old English f?f, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e. The v is from inflected forms of the word, which underwent intervocalic voicing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?v/

Numeral

five

1. five

Related terms

• fifte
• fiftene

Descendants

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

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English five, from Old English f?f, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fai?v/
• (Dundee) IPA^(key): /f?v/

Numeral

five

1. five

Related terms

• fift (“fifth”)
• fifty (“fifty”)

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French fievre, from Latin febris, from Proto-Italic *fex?ris, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??ris. Cognates include French fièvre and Norman fièvre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?f/

Noun

five f (plural fives)

1. fever
2. delirium

References

• Simon Stasse (2004) Dictionaire Populaire de Wallon Liegeois?^[2], Société Royale Littéraire "La Wallonne"

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?strum (“purificatory sacrifice performed every five years by the censor; lustration; period of five years”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?l?st??m/
• Hyphenation: lus?trum

Noun

lustrum (plural lustra or lustrums)

1. (Ancient Rome, religion, historical) A ceremonial purification of all the people, performed every five years after the taking of the census; a lustration. [from late 16th c.]
2. (by extension, literary) A period of five years.

   Synonyms: luster, lustre, quinquennium

Related terms

Translations

Notes

Further reading

• lustrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lustrum (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology 1

Alteration from earlier *dustrum, from Ancient Greek *??????? (*dústron) from ??? (dú?, “to plunge”).

Noun

lustrum n (genitive lustr?); second declension

1. bog, morass, place where boars and swine wallow
2. (usually in the plural) den or lair of wild beasts; wood, forest
3. (usually in the plural) (a place of) debauchery

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms

• volutabrum

Etymology 2

From Old Latin *loustrom,

• from Proto-Indo-European *lewkstrom, from *lewk- (“to make bright”) (whence l?ce?),
• or from Proto-Indo-European *lewh?strom, from *lewh?- (“to wash”) (whence lav?),
• or from Proto-Indo-European *lewHstrom, from *lewH- (“to expiate”) (whence lu?).

Noun

l?strum n (genitive l?str?); second declension

2. a purificatory sacrifice or lustration performed every five years by the censor
   1. a period of five years

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• l?str?lis
• l?str?

Descendants

• Catalan: lustre, llustre
• English: lustrum
• Italian: lustro
• Spanish: lustro
• Portuguese: lustro

References

• lustrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lustrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lustrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lustrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• lustrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lustrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag