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pañcamo

pañcama

masc nom sg of pañcama (ordin); masc nom sg of pañcama (noun)

1. fifth (5th)
2. fifth of the seven primary musical notes; lit. fifth
3. fifth (5th)

Built from

• pañca — root · five
  An ancient Indo-European numeral; cognate with Latin quinque, Greek pente, English five, Sanskrit pañca. The concrete sense of five fingers or objects extends to the ordinal position.
• -ma — ending · ordinal suffix
  Forms ordinals from cardinals (pañca 'five' → pañcama 'fifth'). This productive suffix places the referent in sequence.

Etymology. pañca 'five' + -ma (ordinal suffix). The root pañca is an Indo-European word for 'five' cognate with Latin quinque, Greek pente, English five, and Sanskrit pañca; the suffix -ma forms ordinals from numerals.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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