quinta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quinta

Noun

quinta (plural quintas)

  1. A country house in Madeira.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quintus (“fifth”)

Adjective

quinta f sg

  1. feminine singular of quint

Noun

la quinta
el cicle de les quintes

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. (historical, 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”)

French

Pronunciation

Verb

quinta

  1. third-person singular past historic of quinter

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

quinta f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective quinto.

Noun

quinta f (plural quinte)

  1. fifth (feminine equivalent of quinto)
  2. (theater) wing
  3. fifth gear
  4. (education) fifth year, fifth form, fifth grade
  5. (fencing) quinte

Anagrams

Latin

Numeral

quīnta

  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

quīntā

  1. ablative feminine singular of quīntus

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old 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 Portuguese quinta, from Latin quintam.

Adjective

quinta f

  1. Feminine singular form of quinto.
    abbreviated form: 5ª

Noun

quinta f (plural quintas)

  1. Shortening of quinta-feira: Thursday

Adverb

quinta (not comparable)

  1. Shortening of quinta-feira: on a Thursday

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. 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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.