quintus

See also: Quintus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quīntus (“fifth”). Doublet of quint.

Noun

quintus

1. (vocal music) The fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.

Latin

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Cardinal: quīnque     Ordinal: quīntus     Adverbial: quīnquiēs, quīnquiēns     Proportional: quīnquiplus, quīntuplus, quīncuplus     Multiplier: quīnquiplex, quīntuplex, quīncuplex, quinqueplex     Distributive: quīnus     Collective: quīniō     Fractional: quīntāns

Etymology

Earlier quīnctus, from Proto-Italic *kʷenktos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷtos (“fifth”), from *pénkʷe (“five”) +‎ *-tós; equivalent to quīnque (“five”) +‎ -tus. Compare Ancient Greek πέμπτος (pémptos), Proto-Germanic *fimftô, Proto-Balto-Slavic *pénktas.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiːn.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷin.tus]
• Hyphenation: quin‧tus

Numeral

quīntus (feminine quīnta, neuter quīntum); first/second-declension numeral

1. fifth

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	quīntus	quīnta	quīntum		quīntī	quīntae	quīnta
genitive	quīntī	quīntae	quīntī		quīntōrum	quīntārum	quīntōrum
dative	quīntō	quīntae	quīntō		quīntīs
accusative	quīntum	quīntam	quīntum		quīntōs	quīntās	quīnta
ablative	quīntō	quīntā	quīntō		quīntīs
vocative	quīnte	quīnta	quīntum		quīntī	quīntae	quīnta

Derived terms

• quīntāna
• quīntānus
• quīntārius
• quīntīlis
• quīntum
• quīntuplex

Descendants

• Asturian: quintu
• Catalan: quint
• Dalmatian: cincto
• Dutch: kwint
• Emilian: quént
• Friulian: cuint
• Galician: quinto
• Italian: quinto
• Ladin: cuinto
• Old French: quint, quinte
  • Middle French: quint
    • French: quint
    • → English: quint
• Old Occitan: quint
  • Occitan: quint
• Portuguese: quinto
• Sardinian: quíntu
• Spanish: quinto
• → English: quintate

References

• “quintus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quintus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quintus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “quintus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) every fifth year: quinto quoque anno
    
  • (ambiguous) in the fifth year from the founding of the city: anno ab urbe condita quinto
    
• “quintus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quintus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray