quin

• IPA^(key): /kwɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: Quinn

quin (plural quins)

1. (informal) A quintuplet.

• quad

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.

From Old Occitan, from Latin quinam.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkin/

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

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

• qui

• “quin” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

quin

1. (Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

quin

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

To ask for a subject, use qui instead.

From instrumental quī + ne.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷiːn/, [kᶣiːn]

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.

• 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
• quin in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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)
    

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

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!

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

• quinament