quintana

See also: Quintana

Italian

Noun

quintana f (plural quintane)

1. quintan fever
2. quintain, joust

Latin

Etymology

From quintanus (“the fifth”), from quintus +‎ -anus.

Noun

quīntāna f (genitive quīntānae); first declension

1. A street in the Roman camp, separating the fifth and sixth maniples, containing the marketplace

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quīntāna	quīntānae
Genitive	quīntānae	quīntānārum
Dative	quīntānae	quīntānīs
Accusative	quīntānam	quīntānās
Ablative	quīntānā	quīntānīs
Vocative	quīntāna	quīntānae

Descendants

• Galician: Quintá, Quintán (place names); quinteiro (derived)
• Middle French: quintaine
  • Anglo-Norman: quintaine, quinteine
    • → English: quintain
  • French: quintaine
• Old Galician-Portuguese: quintãa
  • Portuguese: quinta
  • Portuguese: quintã
• Spanish: quinta

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin quintana (“the fifth”), giving name to one of the roads of the Roman camp where people used to sell groceries.

Noun

quintana f (plural quintanas)

1. the fifth
2. one of the roads of the Roman camp
3. place
4. farmhouse in the countryside or in a village

Adjective

quintana f

1. feminine singular of quintano

Further reading

• “quintana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014