quincunxn.

Brit.

/ˈkwɪnkʌŋks/,

/ˈkwɪŋkʌŋks/, U.S.

/ˈkwɪnˌkəŋ(k)s/

Forms: 1600s–1700s quincunce, 1600s– quincunx, 1700s quinquonce, 1800s quincunque.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quincunc-, quincunx.

Etymology: < classical Latin quincunc-, quincunx five twelfths, five twelfths of a pound, five twelfths of an as, coin of this value (occasionally marked with a pattern resembling the five spots on a dice cube), pattern of this type (used of the arrangement of trees, etc.) < quīnque five (see quinque- comb. form) + uncia a twelfth (see ounce n.¹). Compare French quinconce , †quinconche (1534 in Middle French as quincunce ), Italian quinconce , quincunce (a1597). Compare slightly earlier quincuncial adj.Latin quincunx occurs earlier in an English context. Compare the following use apparently with reference to a v-shaped figure:1545 Bibliotheca Eliotæ Decusis, tenne hole partes or ten Asses...It is also a fourme in any thynge representyng the letter, X, whiche parted in the middel, maketh an other figure called Quincunx, V. Compare the following uses in the sense ‘five-twelfths of a pound or as’:OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. 3. 184 Gyf þu todælst on syx þæt pund, þonne hatte se syxta dæl sextans and þa fife quincunx oððe cincus.1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale f. 50^v Quincunx is 5. vunces. In form quinquonce probably after French quinconce.

a. A pattern used for planting trees in which they are arranged in one or more groups of five, so placed that four occupy the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth occupies its centre; a group or plantation of trees laid out in this manner.Early texts interpret the pattern in various ways. The second edition of Elyot's Dict. (1542) provides a diagram consisting of two rows of eight circles, between which is a row of seven. The following edition ( Bibliotheca Eliotae, 1545) changes the diagram to two rows of six circles, between which is one of five. The diagram in Huloet's Dictionary (see quot. 1552) consists of a square of five rows of five diamonds, while Thomas Cooper's Thes. Linguae Romanae & Britannicae (1565) illustrates the pattern as three rows of five circles separated by two rows of four.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > arrangement in planting

quincunx1606

coast1664

underplanting1914

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Quincunx, quincuncis,..an order of settynge of trees in a gardeyne or orchard veraye exactelye, that whyche waye soo euer that a manne dydde looke, the trees stoode dyrectely oone agaynste an nother.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Tenne whole partes An exacte order of settyng of trees, or plantes of pleasure in a garden or orchyarde,..whyche be so checkered that a man maye walke whyche waye he lyste, and maye be sayde, Quincunx.]

1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale iv. i. 412 I deeme those their vntrimmed and rough shades and groues, to haue had in them more maiestie and honor, than had afterwards their pleasant greene woods, with the trees most artificially planted in order of the curious Quincunx [L. quincuncem].

1664 J. Evelyn Pomona v. 15 in Sylva [The orchard] may assume the Ornament of Cyrus, and flourish in the Quincunx.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 3 Quincunce in its original Signification, was a Plantation of Trees, like the Cinque Points of a Die repeated.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) II. clviii. 302 Plantations perfectly regular, and laid out in quincunxes.

1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 134 Oaks intended for stands..should..be set out,..as nearly a quincunx as plants most proper for the purpose will allow.

1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iv. 121 He is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five, east, west, north, or south.

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 20 For every tree felled, the bark collector should plant a quincunx.

1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas iii. 114 The grounds are laid out in formal quincunxes of clipped ilex.

1955 A. West Heritage (1984) ii. 88 I..looked across a place planted with a quincunx of trees to the harbor.

1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 May 47/3 When I walked around in February, the old quincunxes of sweet chestnuts were being felled in the Tuileries.

b. In extended use: an arrangement of five objects in this pattern; a set of five so arranged.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > other specific arrangements > [noun] > other spec.

quincunx1658

star1831

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 122 The single Quincunx of the Hyades upon the neck of Taurus.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia xxiii. 140 The whole surface on both sides is cover'd over with a multitude of very small holes..rang'd in the neatest and most delicate order imaginable, they being plac'd in the manner of a Quincunx.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 107 These cellules are..disposed in the manner of a quincunx.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. vi. 72 The florets..are placed very thick..in form of a quincunx or the checks upon a chess-board.

1804 S. T. Coleridge Let. 10 Mar. in Lit. Remains (1836) II. 415 You have quincunxes in heaven above, quincunxes in earth below, and quincunxes in the water beneath the earth; quincunxes in deity, quincunxes in the mind of man, quincunxes in bones, in the optic nerve, in roots of trees, in leaves, in petals, in every thing.

1858 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. (1866) II. 64 Teeth crowded, arranged in a quincunx.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 212 Mr M'Coy had tried unsuccessfully to find a place in the bench with the others, and, when the party had settled down in the form of a quincunx, he had tried unsuccessfully to make comic remarks.

1977 P. L. Fermor Time of Gifts (1979) ii. 63 Pruned to the bone, the dark vine-shoots stuck out of the snow in rows of skeleton fists which shrank to quincunxes of black commas.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Nov. 14/3 As a quincunx—an arrangement of five objects in a square space—the San Marco domes emphasize the Greek-cross plan of the church.

c. Botany. A quincuncial arrangement of leaves or perianth segments. Cf. quincuncial adj. 2. rare.

ΚΠ

1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy ii. 116 As to the Situation of the Leaves of Plants, the learned Dr. Brown has made the Quincunx famous, which may with as great openess be applied (and, I think, more universally) to the Situation of Buds.

1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §176 Such arrangements [of the leaves] as ²/ ₅, ³/ ₈, ⁵/ ₁₃, and ⁸/ ₂₁, are common in the Exogens. The first of these, called quincunx (quincunx, an arrangement of five), is met with in the Apple, Pear, and Cherry.

1965 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 52 124 The calyx..consists of 5 lobes which are divided to the base and arranged in a quincunx with 2 exterior lobes, 2 interior lobes and an imbricate lobe.

2. Astrology and (formerly) Astronomy. The aspect of two planets which are at an angular distance of five-twelfths of a circle (150 degrees) apart in the sky.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > position of planet > aspect > [noun] > quincunx

quincunx1647

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. iii. 32 One Kepler, a learned man, hath added some new ones, as follow, viz.: A Quincunx Vc consisting of 150 degrees.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 39 The new Aspects..are not much to be regarded, unless perhaps the Quincunce and Semisextile.

1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2641/2 Quincunx, in astronomy, an aspect of the planets, when 150° or five signs asunder.

1964 L. MacNiece Astrol. i. 25 The minor aspects have names like quintile (72°), sesquadrate (135°), and quincunx (150°).

2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 374/1 The bad news is that the Mars–Saturn quincunx, with an equally powerful effort, is doing everything possible to wrench that bottle away from you.

†3. Church History. A reliquary having a folding construction on a quincuncial pattern. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1885 S. Fallows Suppl. Dict. 384/3 Quin cunx, a kind of reliquary or image shaped like a cross, consisting of five parts or panels of equal dimensions which can be closed up by folding them over the principal one.

Phrases

in quincunx: so as to form a quincunx, in quincunx formation.

ΚΠ

1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) at Quincunx order Trees planted in Quincunx, are such as are planted in the following Form.

1776 L. Carter Diary 14 May (1965) II. 1039 Begin to hill my meadow corn for Syrrop. I have ordered it four foot rows and step in quincunx and 4 grains in a hill.

1877 Amer. Naturalist 11 260 Of the petals two were arranged in quincunx.

1937 Jrnl. Paleontol. 11 657/1 Fine punctae which appear to be arranged in quincunx.

2003 Jrnl. Parasitol. 89 141/1 Tegument heavily spined; spines in quincunx.

Compounds

attributive, as quincunx arrangement, quincunx aestivation, quincunx fashion, quincunx form, quincunx order, etc.

ΚΠ

1674 M. Lister Let. 20 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1977) XI. 130 They are channelled the length wayes, & upon the ridges knotted or purled all over wth small knotts, set in a quincunx order.

1742 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 76/1 The Parallellopipedons of burnt Clay were plac'd quincunx form.

1760 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 60 Reading has three handsome churches built in the quincunx fashion.

1826 R. A. Salisbury in Gardener's Mag. 1 123 Plunge them to the brim close to one another, quincunx fashion, in an open bed, fully exposed to the sun and air.

1883 19th Cent. Nov. 871 Where trees are planted in straight lines, on the quincunx arrangement, that is every four trees forming not a square but a diamond.

1979 Garden (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 23/1 The ideal planting arrangement, the quincunx formation.

1997 Ann. Bot. 80 235/1 Naumann..described the quincunx arrangement of leaves and introduced a few sequences related to spiral phyllotaxis.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quincunx
释义	quincunxn. Brit. /ˈkwɪnkʌŋks/, /ˈkwɪŋkʌŋks/, U.S. /ˈkwɪnˌkəŋ(k)s/ Forms: 1600s–1700s quincunce, 1600s– quincunx, 1700s quinquonce, 1800s quincunque. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quincunc-, quincunx. Etymology: < classical Latin quincunc-, quincunx five twelfths, five twelfths of a pound, five twelfths of an as, coin of this value (occasionally marked with a pattern resembling the five spots on a dice cube), pattern of this type (used of the arrangement of trees, etc.) < quīnque five (see quinque- comb. form) + uncia a twelfth (see ounce n.¹). Compare French quinconce , †quinconche (1534 in Middle French as quincunce ), Italian quinconce , quincunce (a1597). Compare slightly earlier quincuncial adj.Latin quincunx occurs earlier in an English context. Compare the following use apparently with reference to a v-shaped figure:1545 Bibliotheca Eliotæ Decusis, tenne hole partes or ten Asses...It is also a fourme in any thynge representyng the letter, X, whiche parted in the middel, maketh an other figure called Quincunx, V. Compare the following uses in the sense ‘five-twelfths of a pound or as’:OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. 3. 184 Gyf þu todælst on syx þæt pund, þonne hatte se syxta dæl sextans and þa fife quincunx oððe cincus.1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale f. 50^v Quincunx is 5. vunces. In form quinquonce probably after French quinconce. 1. a. A pattern used for planting trees in which they are arranged in one or more groups of five, so placed that four occupy the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth occupies its centre; a group or plantation of trees laid out in this manner.Early texts interpret the pattern in various ways. The second edition of Elyot's Dict. (1542) provides a diagram consisting of two rows of eight circles, between which is a row of seven. The following edition ( Bibliotheca Eliotae, 1545) changes the diagram to two rows of six circles, between which is one of five. The diagram in Huloet's Dictionary (see quot. 1552) consists of a square of five rows of five diamonds, while Thomas Cooper's Thes. Linguae Romanae & Britannicae (1565) illustrates the pattern as three rows of five circles separated by two rows of four. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > arrangement in planting quincunx1606 coast1664 underplanting1914 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Quincunx, quincuncis,..an order of settynge of trees in a gardeyne or orchard veraye exactelye, that whyche waye soo euer that a manne dydde looke, the trees stoode dyrectely oone agaynste an nother. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Tenne whole partes An exacte order of settyng of trees, or plantes of pleasure in a garden or orchyarde,..whyche be so checkered that a man maye walke whyche waye he lyste, and maye be sayde, Quincunx.] 1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale iv. i. 412 I deeme those their vntrimmed and rough shades and groues, to haue had in them more maiestie and honor, than had afterwards their pleasant greene woods, with the trees most artificially planted in order of the curious Quincunx [L. quincuncem]. 1664 J. Evelyn Pomona v. 15 in Sylva [The orchard] may assume the Ornament of Cyrus, and flourish in the Quincunx. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 3 Quincunce in its original Signification, was a Plantation of Trees, like the Cinque Points of a Die repeated. 1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) II. clviii. 302 Plantations perfectly regular, and laid out in quincunxes. 1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 134 Oaks intended for stands..should..be set out,..as nearly a quincunx as plants most proper for the purpose will allow. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iv. 121 He is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five, east, west, north, or south. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 20 For every tree felled, the bark collector should plant a quincunx. 1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas iii. 114 The grounds are laid out in formal quincunxes of clipped ilex. 1955 A. West Heritage (1984) ii. 88 I..looked across a place planted with a quincunx of trees to the harbor. 1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 May 47/3 When I walked around in February, the old quincunxes of sweet chestnuts were being felled in the Tuileries. b. In extended use: an arrangement of five objects in this pattern; a set of five so arranged. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > other specific arrangements > [noun] > other spec. quincunx1658 star1831 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 122 The single Quincunx of the Hyades upon the neck of Taurus. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia xxiii. 140 The whole surface on both sides is cover'd over with a multitude of very small holes..rang'd in the neatest and most delicate order imaginable, they being plac'd in the manner of a Quincunx. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 107 These cellules are..disposed in the manner of a quincunx. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. vi. 72 The florets..are placed very thick..in form of a quincunx or the checks upon a chess-board. 1804 S. T. Coleridge Let. 10 Mar. in Lit. Remains (1836) II. 415 You have quincunxes in heaven above, quincunxes in earth below, and quincunxes in the water beneath the earth; quincunxes in deity, quincunxes in the mind of man, quincunxes in bones, in the optic nerve, in roots of trees, in leaves, in petals, in every thing. 1858 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. (1866) II. 64 Teeth crowded, arranged in a quincunx. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 212 Mr M'Coy had tried unsuccessfully to find a place in the bench with the others, and, when the party had settled down in the form of a quincunx, he had tried unsuccessfully to make comic remarks. 1977 P. L. Fermor Time of Gifts (1979) ii. 63 Pruned to the bone, the dark vine-shoots stuck out of the snow in rows of skeleton fists which shrank to quincunxes of black commas. 2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Nov. 14/3 As a quincunx—an arrangement of five objects in a square space—the San Marco domes emphasize the Greek-cross plan of the church. c. Botany. A quincuncial arrangement of leaves or perianth segments. Cf. quincuncial adj. 2. rare. ΚΠ 1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy ii. 116 As to the Situation of the Leaves of Plants, the learned Dr. Brown has made the Quincunx famous, which may with as great openess be applied (and, I think, more universally) to the Situation of Buds. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §176 Such arrangements [of the leaves] as ²/ ₅, ³/ ₈, ⁵/ ₁₃, and ⁸/ ₂₁, are common in the Exogens. The first of these, called quincunx (quincunx, an arrangement of five), is met with in the Apple, Pear, and Cherry. 1965 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 52 124 The calyx..consists of 5 lobes which are divided to the base and arranged in a quincunx with 2 exterior lobes, 2 interior lobes and an imbricate lobe. 2. Astrology and (formerly) Astronomy. The aspect of two planets which are at an angular distance of five-twelfths of a circle (150 degrees) apart in the sky. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > position of planet > aspect > [noun] > quincunx quincunx1647 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. iii. 32 One Kepler, a learned man, hath added some new ones, as follow, viz.: A Quincunx Vc consisting of 150 degrees. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 39 The new Aspects..are not much to be regarded, unless perhaps the Quincunce and Semisextile. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2641/2 Quincunx, in astronomy, an aspect of the planets, when 150° or five signs asunder. 1964 L. MacNiece Astrol. i. 25 The minor aspects have names like quintile (72°), sesquadrate (135°), and quincunx (150°). 2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 374/1 The bad news is that the Mars–Saturn quincunx, with an equally powerful effort, is doing everything possible to wrench that bottle away from you. †3. Church History. A reliquary having a folding construction on a quincuncial pattern. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1885 S. Fallows Suppl. Dict. 384/3 Quin cunx, a kind of reliquary or image shaped like a cross, consisting of five parts or panels of equal dimensions which can be closed up by folding them over the principal one. Phrases in quincunx: so as to form a quincunx, in quincunx formation. ΚΠ 1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) at Quincunx order Trees planted in Quincunx, are such as are planted in the following Form. 1776 L. Carter Diary 14 May (1965) II. 1039 Begin to hill my meadow corn for Syrrop. I have ordered it four foot rows and step in quincunx and 4 grains in a hill. 1877 Amer. Naturalist 11 260 Of the petals two were arranged in quincunx. 1937 Jrnl. Paleontol. 11 657/1 Fine punctae which appear to be arranged in quincunx. 2003 Jrnl. Parasitol. 89 141/1 Tegument heavily spined; spines in quincunx. Compounds attributive, as quincunx arrangement, quincunx aestivation, quincunx fashion, quincunx form, quincunx order, etc. ΚΠ 1674 M. Lister Let. 20 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1977) XI. 130 They are channelled the length wayes, & upon the ridges knotted or purled all over wth small knotts, set in a quincunx order. 1742 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 76/1 The Parallellopipedons of burnt Clay were plac'd quincunx form. 1760 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 60 Reading has three handsome churches built in the quincunx fashion. 1826 R. A. Salisbury in Gardener's Mag. 1 123 Plunge them to the brim close to one another, quincunx fashion, in an open bed, fully exposed to the sun and air. 1883 19th Cent. Nov. 871 Where trees are planted in straight lines, on the quincunx arrangement, that is every four trees forming not a square but a diamond. 1979 Garden (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 23/1 The ideal planting arrangement, the quincunx formation. 1997 Ann. Bot. 80 235/1 Naumann..described the quincunx arrangement of leaves and introduced a few sequences related to spiral phyllotaxis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † quincunxv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quincunx n. Etymology: < quincunx n. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To plant in a quincunx formation. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > other specific arrangements > arrange in other specific manner [verb (transitive)] > other spec. chequer1677 quincunx1847 echelon1859 1847 Simmonds's Colonial Mag. 10 165 Some [say] that the bushes are not near enough together, and that I ought to quincunx them. 1855 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 28 July 604/2 Forward lettuces quincunxed amongst backward greens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1606v.1847
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quincunxn.

Phrases

Compounds

† quincunxv.