Dictionaries › English

pentimal

The English word “pentimal” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Using a base of 5; quinary.

noun

  1. The abstract numeral system underlying any pentimal numeral system; quinary.
  2. A numeral as written in such a system; a quinary.

Etymology

From pent-, by analogy with decimal.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “pentimal” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.