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Quinque- or quint- for short is a Latin numerical prefixes meaning 5. The Greek equivalent is penta-. Some words are:
- Quintuplet = 5 children born to the same mother at the same time
- Quintet = 5 musicians
- quintillion = 10^18 (5 groups of 3 zeros after 1000)
- Quintation = fifth operation in sequence, addition, multiplication, etc.
- Quintilis, the fifth month of the early Roman calendar
See all pages from Quinq (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=Quinq) (note also the words starting with Quint).
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