# Is there a word for "times five"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 4, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071 "2014-06-04T23:59:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/1 "2014-06-04T23:59:48Z")
Hello Everyone, I’m talking to my kids and we were using the terms double, triple and quadruple. Then they asked me if there a word for multiplying something by five. Is there? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/2 "2014-06-05T00:02:02Z")
[Quintuple](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quintuple). ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/3 "2014-06-05T00:09:28Z")
There’s plenty [more](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple) where that came from. Also consider teaching them primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, and [more](http://www.english-for-students.com/Primary-1.html). ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/4 "2014-06-05T00:14:53Z")
Or you could be a terrible parent and tell them it’s “pentify”. Then watch them go through life generating perplexity where’er they tread. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/5 "2014-06-05T00:21:00Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Or you could be a terrible parent and tell them it’s “pentify”. Then watch them go through life generating perplexity where’er they tread. I always say that since words like quintuple are really just Latin prefixes for the numbers, we should just use English versions like twople, threeple, fourple, fiveple and so on. This is handy, because nobody ever remembers the Latin for multipliers two-hundred-twelveple. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/6 "2014-06-05T00:32:57Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > I always say that since words like quintuple are really just Latin prefixes for the numbers, we should just use English versions like twople, threeple, fourple, fiveple and so on. This is handy, because nobody ever remembers the Latin for multipliers two-hundred-twelveple. 🙂 I like to use use oneth and twoth in place of first and second, just to amuse myself. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/7 "2014-06-05T01:14:50Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Also consider teaching them primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, and [more](http://www.english-for-students.com/Primary-1.html). Yet, that same site tells us that there is no next word in the series: [once, twice, thrice](http://www.english-for-students.com/Thrice.html). Interesting site to poke around. We need to point it out to **Reza**. > [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > I like to use use oneth and twoth in place of first and second, just to amuse myself. ??? Not “onest”, “twond”, “threerd”, . . . ? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/8 "2014-06-05T01:21:05Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Or you could be a terrible parent and tell them it’s “pentify”. That would be multiplying by 4.9999999. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/9 "2014-06-05T01:30:55Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Yet, that same site tells us that there is no next word in the series: [once, twice, thrice](http://www.english-for-students.com/Thrice.html). We need to start using the force. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/10 "2014-06-05T01:32:00Z")
What are there, like eleventy different number series in English? ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/11 "2014-06-05T02:14:58Z")
Quint Five over par. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/12 "2014-06-05T12:48:53Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > What are there, like eleventy different number series in English? Umpteen, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/13 "2014-06-05T13:09:14Z")
> [@obbn](#): > > Hello Everyone, > > I’m talking to my kids and we were using the terms double, triple and quadruple. Then they asked me if there a word for multiplying something by five. Is there? Fivefold? ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/14 "2014-06-05T17:01:32Z")
You might also talk to them about plane shapes - triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon etc etc. Then of course the platonic solid shapes - Tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron… It’s fun to make them: [Platonic Solids - EnchantedLearning.com](http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/geometry/solids/) ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/15 "2014-06-05T17:26:46Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > What are there, like eleventy different number series in English? As far as I can recall there are four number series in English: Cardinal numbers: one, two, three, etc Ordinal numbers: first, second, third, etc Multiple numbers: once, twice, thrice Distributive numbers: unary, binary, trinary, etc I’d be grateful if any math guys would step in and correct this if needed. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/16 "2014-06-05T17:43:18Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Cardinal numbers: one, two, three, etc > Ordinal numbers: first, second, third, etc > Multiple numbers: once, twice, thrice > Distributive numbers: unary, binary, trinary, etc > > I’d be grateful if any math guys would step in and correct this if needed. Well, of course, the set the started the OP: single, double, triple, [del]home run[/del] quadruple, etc. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/17 "2014-06-05T17:56:07Z")
And what about primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary, etc.? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/18 "2014-06-05T18:10:24Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > I always say that since words like quintuple are really just Latin prefixes for the numbers, we should just use English versions like twople, threeple, fourple, fiveple and so on. This is handy, because nobody ever remembers the Latin for multipliers two-hundred-twelveple. 🙂 You mean bicentidodecuple ? I use it every day ! No I don’t ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-times-five/690071/19 "2014-06-05T18:22:55Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > What are there, like eleventy different number series in English? > [@aldiboronti](#): > > As far as I can recall there are four number series in English: > > Cardinal numbers: one, two, three, etc > > Ordinal numbers: first, second, third, etc > > Multiple numbers: once, twice, thrice > > Distributive numbers: unary, binary, trinary, etc > > I’d be grateful if any math guys would step in and correct this if needed. Or you could just like go with the joke too, that works.