quintus

Earlier quīnctus, from Proto-Italic *kʷenktos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷtos (“fifth”), from *pénkʷe (“five”) +‎ *-tós; equivalent to quīnque (“five”) +‎ -tus. Compare Ancient Greek πέμπτος (pémptos), Proto-Germanic *fimftô, Proto-Balto-Slavic *pénktas.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷiːn.tus/, [ˈkʷiːn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwin.tus/, [ˈkwin̪t̪us]
• Hyphenation: quin‧tus

quīntus (feminine quīnta, neuter quīntum); first/second-declension numeral

1. fifth, the ordinal number after quartus and before sextus

First/second-declension adjective.

• quīntānus
  • quīntāna
• quīntārius
• quīntīlis
• quīntuplex

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quintus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray