quinary

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Cardinal: five Ordinal: fifth Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary Latinate reverse order ordinal: propreantepenultimate Adverbial: five times Multiplier: fivefold Latinate multiplier: quintuple Distributive: quintuply Germanic collective: fivesome Collective of n parts: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek or Latinate collective: pentad Greek collective prefix: penta- Latinate collective prefix: quinque- Fractional: fifth Elemental: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek prefix: pempto- Number of musicians: quintet Number of years: quinquennium, lustrum

From the Latin quīnārius (“containing five each”), from quīnī (“five each”, “five at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quinaire, the Italian quinario, and the Portuguese quinário. Doublet of quinarius.

Latin ordinals
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quinary (not comparable)

of fifth rank or order

quinary (plural quinaries)

(astrology) Any of 72 rays associated with the Sun, six for each of the 12 houses of the Zodiac.