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Quincunx | Define Quincunx at Dictionary.com

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Image via Wikipedia Quincunx | Define Quincunx at Dictionary.com : "[C17: from Latin : five twelfths, from quinque five uncia twelfth; in ancient Rome , this was a coin worth five twelfths of an as and marked with five spots]" .. .ero . Related articles Why Study Latin? (lewrockwell.com) Looking up Words in a Latin Dictionary: Nouns (brighthub.com) A Review of Words by Whitaker's Online Latin to English Dictionary (brighthub.com) Looking up Adjectives in a Latin Dictionary (brighthub.com) Latin's Ablative of Comparison with Comparative Adjectives (brighthub.com)