quintal

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman quintal, Middle French quintal, from Late Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار‎ (qinṭār), ultimately from Latin centenarius. Doublet of centenary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪntəl/

Noun

quintal (plural quintals)

1. (India, otherwise historical) A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 204:

     In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.

2. One hundred kilograms.

Etymology

From Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار‎ (qinṭār), ultimately from Latin centenarius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃.tal/

Noun

quintal m (plural quintaux)

1. quintal (hundredweight)
2. quintal (100 kg)

Further reading

• “quintal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار‎ (qinṭār), ultimately from Latin centenarius.

Noun

quintal m (plural quintaulx)

1. quintal (hundredweight)

Etymology

Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار‎ (qinṭār), ultimately from Latin centenarius.

Noun

quintal m (oblique plural quintaus or quintax or quintals, nominative singular quintaus or quintax or quintals, nominative plural quintal)

1. quintal (hundredweight)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kĩ.ˈtaɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kĩ.ˈtaw/
• Hyphenation: quin‧tal

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese quintãal, from Vulgar Latin *quintanale; or from quinta +‎ -al.

Etymology 2

From Arabic قِنْطَار‎ (qinṭār), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“hundredweight”).

Alternative forms

• qq (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Late Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار‎ (qinṭār), ultimately from Latin centenarius.

Noun

quintal m (plural quintales)

1. hundredweight