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- From: israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: Re: quincunx, what does it mean
- Date: 12 Nov 92 17:31:46 GMT
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- In <berck.721563121@cs.rulimburg.nl> berck@cs.rulimburg.nl (Peter Berck) writes:
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- >This is probable not the right newsgroup (sorry) but what does
- >Quincunx mean (as in the book by C. Palliser). Etymology?
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- From my digital Webster:
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- quin-cunx n
- [L quincunc-, quincunx, lit., five twelfths, fr. quinque five + uncia twelfth part
- -- more at FIVE, OUNCE]
- (1658)
- :an arrangement of five things with one at each corner and one in the middle
- of a square or rectangle
- -- quin-cun-cial or quin-cunx-ial adj
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