quince

English

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Etymology

Borrowing from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μήλον κυδώνιον (mḗlon kudṓnion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪns/
• Rhymes: -ɪns

Noun

quince (plural quinces)

1. The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
2. The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.

Derived terms

• Japan quince
• quince curculio

Translations

fruit

• Afrikaans: kweeper
• Albanian: ftua m
• Armenian: սերկեւիլ (serkewil)
• Basque: irasagar
• Catalan: codony (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榲桲 (zh), 榅桲 (wēnpo) (or yùnbó)

• Czech: kdoule (cs) f
• Danish: kvæde
• Dutch: kweepeer (nl)
• Esperanto: cidonio
• Finnish: kvitteni (fi)
• French: coing (fr)
• Friulian: codogn
• Georgian: კომში (komši)
• German: Quitte (de) f
• Greek: κυδώνι (el) n (kydóni)
• Hungarian: birs (hu), birsalma (hu), birskörte (hu)
• Italian: mela cotogna f, cotogna f
• Luxembourgish: Quitt f

• Macedonian: ду́ња f (dúnja)
• Maori: kuini, kuinihi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvede

• Occitan: codonh (oc)
• Persian: به (fa) (beh), بهی (fa) (behi)
• Polish: pigwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: marmelo (pt) m
• Romanian: gutuie (ro) f
• Russian: айва́ (ru) f (ajvá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дуња f

  Roman: dunja f

• Sotho: kwepere
• Spanish: membrillo (es) m
• Swedish: kvitten (sv)
• Tajik: биҳӣ (bihī), беҳ (beh)
• Turkish: ayva (tr)
• Volapük: kvit (vo)
• Welsh: afal cwins m, cwinsen f, cwinsyn m, clesinen f (literary use)

tree

• Afrikaans: kweeper, kweeperboom
• Albanian: ftua m
• Armenian: սերկեւիլ (serkewil)
• Basque: irasagarrondo
• Catalan: codonyer m
• Czech: kdouloň f
• Dutch: kweepeer (nl), kwee
• Esperanto: cidoniarbo
• Finnish: kvitteni (fi)
• French: cognassier (fr) m
• German: Quitte (de) f, Quittenbaum m
• Greek: κυδωνιά (el) f (kydoniá)
• Hungarian: birsalmafa (hu)
• Italian: melocotogno m, cotogno m
• Jèrriais: bouais d'coing m

• Macedonian: ду́ња f (dúnja)
• Occitan: codonhièr (oc) m
• Polish: pigwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: marmelo (pt) m
• Romanian: gutui (ro) m
• Russian: айва (ru) f (ajvá)
• Sardinian: chidonza f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дуња f, дуњeвина f

  Roman: dunja f, dunjevina f

• Sotho: kwepere
• Spanish: membrillo (es) m, membrillero m
• Turkish: ayva (tr)
• Volapük: kvitep (vo), kvitabim (vo)
• Welsh: coeden gwins f, cwinswydden f

Anagrams

• cinque

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Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

14	15	16
Cardinal : quince     Ordinal : decimoquintu

Etymology

From Latin quīndecim.

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) fifteen

Derived terms

• quincenu

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Galician

Galician cardinal numbers

14	15	16
Cardinal : quince     Ordinal : décimo quinto

Etymology

From Latin quīndecim.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) fifteen

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Spanish

Spanish cardinal numbers

14	15	16
Cardinal : quince     Ordinal : decimoquinto

Etymology

From Latin quīndecim.

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈkin.θe/
• (seseo) IPA^(key): /ˈkin.se/

Cardinal number

quince

1. (cardinal) fifteen

Related terms

Related terms

• cinco
• quinceaños

• quinceavo

• quincenario

• quincena

• quinceno