quinta

See also: Quinta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quinta

Noun

quinta (plural quintas)

1. A country house in Madeira.

Anagrams

• quaint

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Catalan

la quinta

el cicle de les quintes

Etymology

From Latin quintus (“fifth”)

Adjective

quinta f sg

1. feminine singular of quint

Noun

quinta f (plural quintes)

1. (card games) a run of five sequential cards of the same suit
2. (music) fifth or fifth voice in piece of vocal polyphony
3. (history, Catalonia) the payment by a city of one-fifth of its municipal taxes into the royal treasury as a condition of being granted a charter

Derived terms

• cicle de les quintes (“circle of fifths”)

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: quintas, quintât

Verb

quinta

1. third-person singular past historic of quinter

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwinta/, [ˈkwin.t̪a]
• Hyphenation: quìn‧ta

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective quinto.

Noun

quinta f (plural quinte)

1. fifth ((deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of quinto)
2. (theater) wing, backstage, side scene
3. fifth gear
4. (education) fifth year, fifth form, fifth grade
5. (fencing) quinte

Related terms

• cinque

Anagrams

• quanti

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Latin

Numeral

1. nominative feminine singular of quīntus
2. nominative neuter plural of quīntus
3. accusative neuter plural of quīntus
4. vocative feminine singular of quīntus
5. vocative neuter plural of quīntus

Numeral

1. ablative feminine singular of quīntus

References

• quinta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkĩ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: quin‧ta

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese quintãa, from Latin quintana.

Noun

quinta f (plural quintas)

1. wine producing estate (winery or vineyard)
2. a country estate
3. a manor or country mansion
4. a small agricultural holding

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinta, from Latin quintam.

Adjective

1. feminine singular of quinto

   abbreviated form: 5ª

Noun

quinta f (plural s)

1. Shortening of quinta-feira: Thursday

Adverb

1. Shortening of quinta-feira: on a Thursday

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin quintana – cognate to English quintain (“a street between the fifth and sixth maniples of a Roman military camp, where warlike exercises took place”) –, the feminine of quintanus (“fifth-ranking”), from quintus (“fifth”), from quinque (“five”).

Ordinal number

quinta

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective quinto.

Noun

quinta f (plural quintas)

1. villa; country home
2. call-up (to the army)
3. group of people who are the same age

   Somos todos de la misma quinta

   We are all the same age.

Derived terms

• llamar a quintas