Latin

Alternative forms

• Q.
• Qu.
• Quinctus

Proper noun

Quintus m ‎(genitive Quintī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen, originally used for a fifth-born son (not counting daughters).

Declension

Second declension.

Derived terms

• Quinctianus
• Quinctilius
• Quinta
• Quintianus
• Quintilianus
• Quintilis
• Quintillus
• Quintinianus
• Quintinus
• Quintīpor
• Quintius

Descendants

• Corsican: Quintu
• Dutch: Kwint, Kwinten, Quint, Quinten
• English: Quint
• French: Quint, Quentin
• Ancient Greek: Κόϊντος (Kóïntos), Κύϊντος (Kýïntos), Κούϊντος (Koúïntos), Κύειντος (Kýeintos), Κύντος (Kýntos)
• Modern Greek: Κόιντος (Kóintos), Κοΐντας (Koïntas)
• Italian: Quinto
• Polish: Kwintus
• Portuguese: Quinto
• Russian: Квинт (Kvint)
• Serbo-Croatian: Kvint
• Slovenian: Kvint
• Spanish: Quinto
• Swedish: Qvintus

See also

• Sixtus
• Septimus
• Octavus, Octavianus
• Decimus

References

• Quintus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Quintus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Latin

Numeral

quintus m ‎(feminine quinta, neuter quintum); first/second declension

1. (ordinal) fifth, the ordinal number after quartus 'fourth' and before sextus 'sixth'

Declension

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• quintānus
• quintārius
• Quintīlis
• quintuplex

Descendants

Noun

quintus m ‎(genitive quintī); second declension

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (music, in a piece of vocal polyphony) the fifth voice added to the bassus, tenor, altus, and superius

Declension

Second declension.

Synonyms

• vagāns

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quintus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
    
• 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