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quintuplet (n.)
1873, "set of five things" (originally in music), from
quintuple
(adj.), 1560s, from Middle French
quintuple
, from Latin
quintus
"fifth" (see
quinque-
). In plural, "five children at one birth" it is recorded from 1889.