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Cinco

Cinco proper noun: a surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry.

Proper noun

Cinco (plural Cincos)

  1. A surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry.

Cinco meaning in Tamil

Cinco in Tamil

ஐந்து

Forms of Cinco

pluralCincos

Origin of Cinco

Ultimately from Hokkien, via Philippine Spanish Cinco, an alternative form of Sinco/Singco, which are historically transcriptions following Spanish orthography of a Hokkien name with honorific used as surnames since the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines.

Phrases with Cinco

Questions about Cinco

What does Cinco mean?
Cinco means a surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry.
What is Cinco in Tamil?
Cinco in Tamil is ஐந்து. See Cinco meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Cinco?
Cinco is a proper noun.

Words near Cinco in the dictionary

  1. cincinnus
  2. Cincitucky
  3. cinclid
  4. cinclids
  5. cinclodes
  6. Cinco
  7. Cinco de Mayo
  8. Cincos
  9. Cincotta
  10. Cincottas
  11. CINCs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Cinco (page history and authors); cinco (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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