quin

See also: Quin, quin-, and -quin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪn/, [kʰw̥ɪn]
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: Quinn

Etymology 1

Noun

quin (plural quins)

1. (informal) A quintuplet.

Related terms

• quad

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

quin (plural quins)

1. A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.
   • 1973, N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution (page 104)

     Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin quinam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkin]

Adjective

quin (feminine quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quines)

1. (interrogative) which, what
2. what a

Related terms

• qui

Further reading

• “quin” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃/

Interjection

quin

1. (Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

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Ido

Pronoun

quin

1. (interrogative) whom (plural) (object)

Usage notes

To ask for a subject, use qui instead.

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Latin

Etymology

From instrumental quī + ne.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷiːn/, [kʷiːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwin/, [kwin]

Adverb

quīn (not comparable)

1. (usually with present indicative) How not?, Why not?

   Quin tu taces?

   Why do you not keep quiet?

2. without

   Numquam egredior quin conspicer.

   I never go out without being seen.

3. even

   Quin et bellorum omnium eventus ante praesensit.

   And he even predicted beforehand the outcomes of all his wars.

References

• “quin”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quin”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quin in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)
    
  • to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix mihi tempero quin lacrimem
    
  • to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix me contineo quin lacrimem
    
  • to make all possible haste to..: nullam moram interponere, quin (Phil. 10. 1. 1)
    

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin quinam (who, which). Cognate with Catalan quin and with Franco-Provençal quint from a merging of Latin quinam and quantus.

Adjective

quin m (feminine singular quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quinas)

1. (interrogative) which

   Quinas veituras son las teunas ?

   Which cars are yours?

2. (interrogative) what

   Quina ora es ?

   What time is it?

3. (exclamative) what

   Quina catastròfa !

   What a catastrophe!

Synonyms

• qual (for animated objects)
• que (for inanimated objects)

Derived terms

• quinament