quinta
See also: Quinta
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
quinta (plural quintas)
- A country house in Madeira.
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Adjective edit
quinta
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin quīntus (“fifth”).
Adjective edit
quinta f sg
Noun edit
quinta f (plural quintes)
- (card games) a run of five sequential cards of the same suit
- (music) fifth or fifth voice in piece of vocal polyphony
- (history, Catalonia) the payment by a city of one-fifth of its municipal taxes into the royal treasury as a condition of being granted a charter
Derived terms edit
- cicle de les quintes (“circle of fifths”)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
quinta
- third-person singular past historic of quinter
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
quinta f sg
Noun edit
quinta f (plural quinte)
- fifth (female equivalent of quinto)
- (theater) wing, backstage, side scene
- fifth gear
- (education) fifth year, fifth form, fifth grade
- (fencing) quinte
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Latin edit
Numeral edit
quīnta
- inflection of quīntus:
Numeral edit
quīntā
References edit
- quinta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: quin‧ta
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese quintãa, from Latin quintana.
Noun edit
quinta f (plural quintas)
- wine producing estate (winery or vineyard)
- a country estate
- a manor or country mansion
- a small agricultural holding
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese quinta, from Latin quintam.
Adjective edit
quinta
Noun edit
quinta f (plural quintas)
- Shortening of quinta-feira: Thursday
Adverb edit
quinta (not comparable)
- Shortening of quinta-feira: on a Thursday
Etymology 3 edit
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quinta
- inflection of quintar:
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin quintana – cognate to English quintain (“a street between the fifth and sixth maniples of a Roman military camp, where warlike exercises took place”) –, the feminine of quintanus (“fifth-ranking”), from quintus (“fifth”), q.v.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quinta f (plural quintas)
- villa; country home
- call-up (to the army)
- group of people who are the same age; cohort
- Somos todos de la misma quinta
- We are all the same age.
- (card games) straight flush (in some games)
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
quinta f
Further reading edit
- “quinta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014