quincunx

‘arrangement of five objects so placed that four occupy the corners and the fifth the centre’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

     E. quincunce, quinquonce < Lat. quinque ‘five’ + uncia ‘ounce, a twelfth part (of anything)’ < unus ‘one’ < unk < oi-no- < Tamil oṉṟu