quinary
‘consisting of fives’
Lexical development traced from Tamil root:
E. quinarie < Lat. quinarius ‘consisting of five, containing five’ < quint ‘five each’ < penkwe- < kvin < Tamil aintu
quinary
‘consisting of fives’
Lexical development traced from Tamil root:
E. quinarie < Lat. quinarius ‘consisting of five, containing five’ < quint ‘five each’ < penkwe- < kvin < Tamil aintu
English words derived from Tamil aintu connoting ‘the number five’