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quinta

quinta

Catalan

Adjective

quinta

  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):

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

quinta f

  1. feminine singular of quinto

Noun

quinta f (plural quinte)

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

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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. nominative neuter plural of quīntus

quīntā

  1. ablative feminine singular of quīntus

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkĩ.tɐ/
  • Hyphenation: quin‧ta

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 small agricultural holding

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese quinta, from Latin quintam.

Ordinal number

quinta f

  1. Feminine singular form of quinto.
    abbreviated form:

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 five.

Ordinal number

quinta f

  1. feminine singular of 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.