Quinary is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 99 anagrams from letters in quinary (ainqruy).
1595-1605; Latin quīnārius, equivalent to quīn(ī) five each + -ārius -ary
Subordinate to either one of these the quinary may and often does appear.
Any number system which passes the limit 10 is reasonably sure to have either a quinary, a decimal, or a vigesimal structure.
In the Mollusca circle two classes are still wanting to complete the quinary arrangement of that sub-kingdom.
But even then the universality of quinary counting for primitive peoples is by no means established.
This leads the quinary into the vigesimal scale, and produces the combination so often found in certain parts of the world.
It is quite within the bounds of possibility that the prehistoric nations of Europe possessed and used a quinary numeration.
Associated words: quinary, quintuple, quintuplicate, quincunx.
In its structure the quinary is the simplest, the most primitive, of the natural systems.
The quinary element does not disappear, but merely sinks into a relatively unimportant position.
The foregoing examples will show with considerable fulness the wide dispersion of the quinary scale.
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