quant

See also: Quant and quant'

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɒnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒnt

Etymology 1

Shortening.

Noun

quant (plural quants)

1. (finance) A quantitative analyst.
   • 2014 January 30, Simon Roberts Was Here (The Crazy Ones), episode 15:

     Judy Mills: Oh, and I was very excited to hear about your agency's new emphasis on hard numbers and data.
     Simon: Excuse me?
     Judy Mills: Yeah, I heard you hired a quant.

2. Short for quantity.
3. Short for quantifier.

Adjective

quant (not comparable)

1. Short for quantifiable.
2. Short for quantitative.

Derived terms

• quant fund

Etymology 2

Uncertain. A borrowing from Latin contus (“long pole”) has been suggested, but the -a- is problematic.

Noun

quant (plural quants)

1. A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
2. A vertical shaft used to drive a millstone.

Derived terms

• quant pole

Verb

quant (third-person singular simple present quants, present participle quanting, simple past and past participle quanted)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To propel using a quant.

Derived terms

• quanter

See also

• quant suff

Anagrams

• nuqta

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan quant, from Latin quantus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkwan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkwant]
• Homophone: quan (Central)

Adjective

quant (feminine quanta, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantes)

1. (interrogative) how many; how much
2. (with the definite article) quite a bit; quite a few (considerably)
   • 2019 August 12, Josep Maria Ganyet, “L’ordinador i la calma”, in La Vanguardia‎^[1]:

     Per entendre de què estem parlant hem de fer una passa enrere... d’uns quants milions d’anys.

     To understand what we're talking about, we have to take a step back... of quite a few million years.

Derived terms

• quant a
• quant de temps
• sabràs dos i dos quants fan

 

References

• “quant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “quant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “quant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quantum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃/

Adverb

quant

1. Only used in quant à

Further reading

• “quant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology 1

From Latin quantus.

Adjective

quant m (feminine singular quante, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantes)

1. how many; how much
   • 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 6, line 8:

     Quant ils orent chevauchier ne sçay quantes iournees

     When they had ridden for I don't know how many days

     (please note, the first word 'quant' corresponds to etymology 2 below)

References

• quant on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Etymology 2

Adverb

quant

1. Alternative form of quand

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan can, from Latin quantus.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

quant m (feminine singular quanta, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantas)

1. (interrogative) how many; how much

Adverb

quant

1. (interrogative) how many; how much

Old French

Alternative forms

• qant, qn̈t

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quandō.

Conjunction

quant

1. when

Adverb

quant

1. (interrogative) when

Descendants

• Middle French: quand, quant
  • French: quand