Etymograph

English

cinquillo

Cinquillo comes from Spanish cinquillo ‘a type of Latin American musical rhythm…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pénkʷe‘five’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kʷenkʷe‘five’reconstructed
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEcīnque
  4. Old Spanishc. 950–1500çinco
  5. Spanishc. 1500–presentcinco‘five’
  6. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentcinquillo‘a type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of five-beat units’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pénkʷe‘five’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kʷenkʷe‘five’reconstructed
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEcīnque
  4. Old Spanishc. 950–1500çinco
  5. Spanishc. 1500–presentcinco‘five’
  6. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentcinquillo‘a type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of five-beat units’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe ‘five’

five, fifth, punch, finger, pentagon, fin, pimp, quintet, quint, quine, 22 more

Today it means

noun A type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of five-beat units.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe / cinquillo

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