quinta

See also: Quinta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quinta.

Noun

quinta (plural quintas)

1. A country house in Madeira.

Anagrams

• quaint

Asturian

Adjective

quinta

1. feminine singular of quintu

Catalan

la quinta

el cicle de les quintes

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quīntus (“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”)

Franco-Provençal

Adjective

quinta

1. feminine singular of quint

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: quintas, quintât

Verb

quinta

1. third-person singular past historic of quinter

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwin.ta/
• Rhymes: -inta
• Hyphenation: quìn‧ta

Adjective

quinta f sg

1. feminine singular of quinto

Noun

quinta f (plural quinte)

1. fifth (female 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

Latin

Numeral

quīnta

1. inflection of quīntus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Numeral

quīntā

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)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkĩ.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: quin‧ta

• Audio (Brazil):

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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

quinta

1. feminine singular of quinto

   Synonym: 5ª (abbreviation)

Noun

quinta f (plural quintas)

1. Shortening of quinta-feira: Thursday

Adverb

quinta (not comparable)

1. Shortening of quinta-feira: on a Thursday

Etymology 3

Verb

quinta

1. inflection of quintar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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”), q.v.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkinta/ [ˈkĩn̪.t̪a]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -inta
• Syllabification: quin‧ta

Noun

quinta f (plural quintas)

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

   Somos todos de la misma quinta

   We are all the same age.

4. (card games) straight flush (in some games)

Derived terms

• entrar en quintas
• llamar a quintas

 

Adjective

quinta f

1. feminine singular of quinto

Further reading

• “quinta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16