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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024quin•cunx (kwing′kungks, kwin′-),USA pronunciation n. - an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
- Botanyan overlapping arrangement of five petals or leaves, in which two are interior, two are exterior, and one is partly interior and partly exterior.
- Latin: five twelfths (quinc-, variant of quīnque- quinque- + uncia twelfth; see ounce1); origin, originally a Roman coin worth five twelfths of an as and marked with a quincunx of spots
- 1640–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: quincunx /ˈkwɪnkʌŋks/ n - a group of five objects arranged in the shape of a rectangle with one at each of the four corners and the fifth in the centre
Etymology: 17th Century: from Latin: five twelfths, from quinque five + uncia twelfth; in ancient Rome, this was a coin worth five twelfths of an as² and marked with five spots |