English

Noun

quin ‎(plural quins)

1. (informal) A quintuplet.

Related terms

• quad

Etymology 2

Noun

quin ‎(plural quins)

1. A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.
   • 1973, N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution (page 104)

     Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Provençal, from Latin quinam.

Adjective

quin m ‎(feminine quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quines)

1. (interrogative) which, what
2. what a

Related terms

• qui

Ido

Pronoun

quin

1. (interrogative) whom (plural) (object)

Usage notes

To ask for a subject, use qui instead.

Latin

Etymology

From instrumental quī + ne.

Adverb

quīn ‎(not comparable)

1. (usually with present indicative) How not?, Why not?

   Quin tu taces?‎

   Why do you not keep quiet?

2. without

   Numquam egredior quin conspicer.‎

   I never go out without being seen.

3. even

   Quin et bellorum omnium eventus ante praesensit.‎

   And he even predicted beforehand the outcomes of all his wars.

References

• quin in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quin in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quin”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)
    
  • to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix mihi tempero quin lacrimem
    
  • to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix me contineo quin lacrimem
    
  • to make all possible haste to..: nullam moram interponere, quin (Phil. 10. 1. 1)
    

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Provençal, from Latin quinam (who, which). Cognate with Catalan quin and with Franco-Provençal quint from a merging of Latin quinam and quantus.

Adjective

quin m (feminine singular quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quinas)

1. (interrogative) which

   Quinas veituras son las teunas ?

   Which cars are yours?

1. (interrogative) what

   Quina ora es ?

   What time is it?

1. (exclamative) what

   Quina catastròfa !

   What a catastrophe!

Derived terms

• quinament

Synonyms

• qual (for animated objects)
• que (for inanimated objects)