sinkuenta

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese cinquenta.

Numeral

sinkuenta

  1. fifty (50)

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish cinquaenta, from Latin cīnquāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷēḱomt, from earlier *pénkʷedḱomt (five-ten).

Numeral

sinkuenta (Hebrew spelling סינקואינטה)[1]

  1. fifty (50)
    • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar[1], page 36:
      Akséptalos, mizmo si ya los uyites sinkuenta vezes, komo uza dizir el nono.
      Accept them, even if you already heard them fifty times, as grandfather tends to say.

Derived terms

  • sinkuenten
  • sinkuentena

References

  1. ^ sinkuenta”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese cinquenta and Spanish cincuenta and Kabuverdianu sinkuenta.

Numeral

sinkuenta

  1. fifty (50)