cinc

From Vulgar Latin cīnque, dissimilation of Latin quinque. Compare Catalan cinc.

cinc

1. five

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cinc m

1. zinc (chemical element)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin cīnque, dissimilation of Latin quīnque (“five”), from Proto-Italic *kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsiŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈsiŋk]

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• Rhymes: -iŋk

cinc m or f

1. (cardinal number) five

cinc m (plural cincs)

1. five
2. (castells) a castell built with five castellers on each level

• “cinc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cinc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cinc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cinc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Vulgar Latin cīnque, dissimilation of Latin quīnque (“five”).

cinc

1. five

cinc m (uncountable)

1. zinc

• “cinc” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From Vulgar Latin cīnque, dissimilation of Latin quīnque (“five”). Cognates include Catalan cinc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiŋk/

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• Hyphenation: cinc

cinc (Languedoc)

1. five

• cinquanta
• cinquen

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 137.

• cinq, chink, cinque

From Vulgar Latin cīnque, dissimilation of Latin quīnque.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsink/

cinc

1. five
   • c. 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     A lor seignor gaires n’antendent
     Ne les serors ne li cinc frere

     They didn't listen to their father
     Neither the sisters or the five brothers

• Gallo: sinq, sin
• Middle French: cinq (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: chînq, chinq; chin, chin
• Walloon: cénk

• cinc on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

• zinc

Borrowed from French zinc, from German Zink, of unknown ultimate origin.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθink/ [ˈθĩŋk]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsink/ [ˈsĩŋk]

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• Rhymes: -ink
• Syllabification: cinc

cinc m (uncountable)

1. zinc

• “cinc”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014