quintus
See also: Quintus
Latin
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| ← 4 | V 5 | 6 → |
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| Cardinal: quīnque, cīnque Ordinal: quīntus Adverbial: quīnquiēs, quīnquiēns Multiplier: quīnquiplus, quīnquiplex, quīntuplus, quīntuplex Distributive: quīnī Fractional: quīntāns | ||
Etymology
Earlier quīnctus, from Proto-Italic *kʷenktos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷtos (“fifth”), from *pénkʷe (“five”) + *-tós; equivalent to quīnque (“five”) + -tus. Compare Ancient Greek πέμπτος (pémptos), Proto-Germanic *fimftô.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷiːn.tus/, [ˈkʷiːn̪t̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwin.tus/, [ˈkwin̪t̪us]
- Hyphenation: quin‧tus
Numeral
quīntus (feminine quīnta, neuter quīntum); first/second-declension numeral
- 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, 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
- (ambiguous) every fifth year: quinto quoque anno
- “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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray