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quinta
quinta
Catalan
Adjective
quinta
- feminine singular of quint
Noun
 la quinta
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 el cicle de les quintes
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quinta f (plural quintes)
- (card games) A run of five sequential cards of the same suit.
- (music) fifth or fifth voice in piece of vocal polyphony.
- (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
- feminine singular of quinto
Noun
quinta f (plural quinte)
- fifth (feminine of quinto)
- (theater) wing
- fifth gear
- (school) fifth year, fifth form, fifth grade
- (fencing) quinte
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Numeral
quīnta
- nominative feminine singular of quīntus
- nominative neuter plural of quīntus
- accusative neuter plural of quīntus
- vocative feminine singular of quīntus
- nominative neuter plural of quīntus
quīntā
- ablative feminine singular of quīntus
References
- QUINTA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkĩ.tɐ/
- Hyphenation: quin‧ta
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese quintãa, from Latin quintana.
Noun
quinta f (plural quintas)
- Wine producing estate (winery or vineyard)
- A country estate
- A small agricultural holding
Etymology 2
From Old Portuguese quinta, from Latin quintam.
Ordinal number
quinta f
Noun
quinta f (plural quintas)
- Shortening of quinta-feira: Thursday
Adverb
quinta (not comparable)
- 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
- feminine singular of quinto
Noun
quinta f (plural quintas)