Quinary | Word Quinary at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

In its structure the quinary is the simplest, the most primitive, of the natural systems.
Examples of this are furnished in a more or less perfect manner by nearly all so-called quinary-vigesimal and quinary-decimal scales.
Up to this point the Greenlander's scale is almost purely quinary.
But both show an incipient quinary tendency in their names for 5 and 10.

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