quintus

See also: Quintus

Latin

Latin ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : quīnque     Ordinal : quīntus     Adverbial : quīnquiēs     Multiplier : quīnquiplex     Distributive : quīnī

Etymology

Earlier quīnctus, from quīnque (“five”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷiːn.tus/, [ˈkʷiːn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwin.tus/, [ˈkwin̪t̪us]

Numeral

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

1. fifth, the ordinal number after quartus and before sextus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	quīntus	quīnta	quīntum		quīntī	quīntae	quīnta
Genitive	quīntī	quīntae	quīntī		quīntōrum	quīntārum	quīntōrum
Dative	quīntō		quīntō		quīntīs
Accusative	quīntum	quīntam	quīntum		quīntōs	quīntās	quīnta
Ablative	quīntō	quīntā	quīntō		quīntīs
Vocative	quīnte	quīnta	quīntum		quīntī	quīntae	quīnta

Derived terms

• quīntānus
• quīntārius
• quīntīlis
• quīntuplex

Descendants

• Asturian: quintu
• Catalan: quint
• Dalmatian: cincto
• Dutch: kwint
• English: quint, quintain, quintate, quintile
• French: quint

• Friulian: cuint
• Galician: quinto
• Italian: quinto
• Ladin: cuinto
• Portuguese: quinto
• Sardinian: quíntu
• Spanish: quinto

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’s 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