quint

From Middle French quint, from Latin quīntus.

• (A musical or piquet term, or a quintuplet) IPA^(key): /kwɪnt/, [kʰw̥ɪnt]
• (A fencing term) IPA^(key): /kwɛ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

quint (plural quints)

1. (music) An interval of one fifth.
2. (music) The E string of a violin.
3. (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
4. (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
   • 1965, LIFE, volume 59, number 7, page 24:

     Two days after Mrs. Shirley Ann Lawson's four girls and one boy were delivered in New Zealand, another set of quints was born to Mrs. Karin Olsen in Falun, Sweden.

5. (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
6. (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.

Catalan numbers ^(edit)

	50[a], [b]
←  4	5	6  → [a], [b], [c]
Cardinal: cinc     Ordinal (Latinate): quint     Ordinal (Central): cinquè     Ordinal (Valencian): cinqué     Ordinal abbreviation (Latinate): 5t     Ordinal abbreviation (Central): 5è     Ordinal abbreviation (Valencian): 5é     Multiplier: quíntuple
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Inherited from Latin quīntus (“fifth”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkin]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkint]

quint (feminine quinta, masculine plural quints, feminine plural quintes)

1. (ordinal number) fifth

   Synonym: cinquè

• a la quinta forca

quint m (plural quints)

1. (fractional number) fifth

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

• IPA^(key): /kʋɪnt/

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• Hyphenation: quint
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

quint f (plural quinten, diminutive quintje n)

1. Superseded spelling of kwint.

Ultimately from Latin quīnam.

quint (feminine quinta, masculine plural quints, feminine plural quintes)

1. (interrogative) what, which

   Synonym: quâl

   Quinta fenna has-tu vëua ?

   Which woman did you see?

2. (exclamative) what

   Quinta catastropha !

   What a catastrophe!

• duquint
• loquint
• sé-quint
• uquint

• quel in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• quint in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “quīnam”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1477

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃/

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quint (feminine quinte, masculine plural quints, feminine plural quintes)

1. (dated) fifth, seldom used outside of titles

   Synonym: cinquième

   l’empereur Charles-Quint ― Emperor Charles V

   le pape Sixte-Quint ― Pope Sixtus V

2. (archaic, medicine) occurring at an interval of five days

   la fièvre quinte ― quintan fever

quint m (plural quints)

1. (obsolete) a fifth

• “quint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Probably from English squint.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪnt/
• Hyphenation: quint

quint

1. (vulgar) squeeze or contract the inner vaginal muscles, providing a tighter feel around the penis during intercourse.

   Baby, mi love when you quint it.

   Girl, I love when you contract your vaginal muscles.

   • 2009, Busy Signal, “The Tightest”, in SongtexteMania‎^[1] (in Jamaican Creole):

     “Tight t-t-t-t-t-tight-t-t-t-t-t-tightesttt vaginaaa
     Quint it like some gal a china eyes
     Tight t-t-t-t-t-tight-t-t-t-t-t-tightesttt vaginaaa
     Grip me, grip me, grip me, grip me baby […] ”

     Tight t-t-t-t-t-tight-t-t-t-t-t-tightesttt vaginaaa
     Contract your vaginal muscles like some Chinese girls' eyes
     Tight t-t-t-t-t-tight-t-t-t-t-t-tightesttt vaginaaa
     Grip me, grip me, grip me, grip me baby […]