quant
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kwɒnt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒnt
Etymology 1
[edit]Shortening.
Noun
[edit]quant (plural quants)
- (finance) A quantitative analyst.
- 2014 January 30, Simon Roberts Was Here (The Crazy Ones), episode 15:
- Judy Mills: Oh, and I was very excited to hear about your agency's new emphasis on hard numbers and data.
Simon: Excuse me?
Judy Mills: Yeah, I heard you hired a quant.
- Short for quantity.
- Short for quantifier.
Adjective
[edit]quant (not comparable)
- Short for quantifiable.
- Short for quantitative.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Uncertain. A borrowing from Latin contus (“long pole”) has been suggested, but the -a- is problematic.
Noun
[edit]quant (plural quants)
- A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
- A vertical shaft used to drive a millstone.
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[edit]Verb
[edit]quant (third-person singular simple present quants, present participle quanting, simple past and past participle quanted)
- (transitive or intransitive) To propel using a quant.
Derived terms
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Catalan quant, from Latin quantus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quant (feminine quanta, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantes)
- (interrogative) how many; how much
- (with the definite article) quite a bit; quite a few (considerably)
- 2019 August 12, Josep Maria Ganyet, “L’ordinador i la calma”, in La Vanguardia[1]:
- Per entendre de què estem parlant hem de fer una passa enrere... d’uns quants milions d’anys.
- To understand what we're talking about, we have to take a step back... of quite a few million years.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “quant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “quant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “quant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “quant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]quant
- Only used in quant à
Further reading
[edit]- “quant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quant m (feminine singular quante, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantes)
- how many; how much
- 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 6, line 8:(please note, the first word 'quant' corresponds to etymology 2 below)
- Quant ils orent chevauchier ne sçay quantes iournees
- When they had ridden for I don't know how many days
References
[edit]- quant on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Etymology 2
[edit]Adverb
[edit]quant
- Alternative form of quand
Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Occitan can, from Latin quantus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]quant m (feminine singular quanta, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantas)
Adverb
[edit]quant
Old French
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[edit]Conjunction
[edit]quant
Adverb
[edit]quant
- (interrogative) when
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