quintate
English edit
Etymology edit
First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus (“fifth”); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, UK) enPR: kwĭnʹtāt, IPA(key): /ˈkwɪnteɪt/
Verb edit
quintate (present participle quintating)
- (obsolete, rare) To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).
- 1812, Emanuel Swedenborg [aut.] and J. Clowes [tr.], Arcana Cœlestia VII (2nd ed.), chapter xli, pages 210⁽¹⁾ and 270⁽²⁾
- ⁽¹⁾ Let Pharaoh…quintate✸ the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance of provision.
- ✸ Quintate signifies to take a fifth of any thing, and is derived from the Latin quintus, signifying a fifth, as decimate is derived from decimus, signifying a tenth.
- ⁽²⁾ “And let him quintate the land” — that hereby is signified which were to be preserved and afterwards stored up, appears from the signification of quintating, as here involving the like with decimating.
- 1812, Emanuel Swedenborg [aut.] and J. Clowes [tr.], Arcana Cœlestia VII (2nd ed.), chapter xli, pages 210⁽¹⁾ and 270⁽²⁾
Coordinate terms edit
- (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part): tertiate (⅓), sextate (⅙), septimate (⅐), decimate (⅒), duodecimate (¹⁄₁₂), centesimate (¹⁄₁₀₀)
Derived terms edit
- quintation (rare)
Adjective edit
quintate (not comparable)
- (botany) Misconstruction of quinate.
- 1851, “The Dispensatory of the United States of America” (9th ed.?), quoted in the Journal of Materia Medica XIV (1875), page 49
- Potentilla Reptans, Cinquefoil, a…European herb, with leaves which are usually quintate, and have thus given origin to the ordinary name of the plant.
- 1880, Lucius Elmer Sayre, Conspectus of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacal Botany, page 127:
- The radical leaves…are ternate or quintate, with lobed and dentate leaflets.
- 1882, Vick’s Monthly Magazine, V, page 167:
- The large quintate leaves constitute a luxuriant, glossy green foliage.
- 1952, Ray Joseph Davis, Flora of Idaho, page 515:
- Leaves 1-2-pinnate or ternate- or quintate-pinnate, the ultimate divisions remote, linear, 1–5 cm long.
- 1851, “The Dispensatory of the United States of America” (9th ed.?), quoted in the Journal of Materia Medica XIV (1875), page 49
Noun edit
quintate (plural quintates)
- (botany, rare) Misconstruction of quinate.
- 1889, Report of Proceedings … at the … Annual Meeting …, ? X-XVI, page 193:
- As to radiates, these are ternates and quintates, two in number,
From among which we “plucked the four-leaf clover.”
- (mathematics, rare, of a quinary-decimal number system) The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).
- 1913, W.C. Eells, “Number Systems of the North American Indians”, in The American Mathematical Monthly, XX, page 294:
- We have as variations for the numbers from 6 to 9, 6 = X + 1…, 7 = X + 2, etc.,…the numerals of the second quintate repeating without the use of the expressed base five.