quinta

Borrowed from Spanish quinta

quinta (plural quintas)

1. A country house in Madeira.

• quaint

From Latin quintus (“fifth”)

quinta f sg

1. feminine singular of quint

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

• cicle de les quintes (“circle of fifths”)

• Homophones: quintas, quintât

quinta

1. third-person singular past historic of quinter

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

quinta

1. Feminine singular of adjective quinto.

quinta f (plural quinte)

1. fifth (feminine equivalent of quinto)
2. (theater) wing, backstage, side scene
3. fifth gear
4. (education) fifth year, fifth form, fifth grade
5. (fencing) quinte

• cinque

• quanti

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. vocative neuter plural of quīntus

quīntā

1. ablative feminine singular of quīntus

• quinta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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

From Old Portuguese quintãa, from Latin quintana.

quinta f (plural quintas)

1. wine producing estate (winery or vineyard)
2. a country estate
3. a manor or country mansion
4. a small agricultural holding

From Old Portuguese quinta, from Latin quintam.

quinta f

1. feminine singular of quinto

   abbreviated form: 5ª

quinta f (plural quintas)

1. Shortening of quinta-feira: Thursday

quinta (not comparable)

1. Shortening of quinta-feira: on a Thursday

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 quinque (“five”).

quinta

1. Feminine singular of adjective quinto.

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.