# quant
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kwɒnt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒnt

### Etymology 1

Shortening.

#### Noun

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

quant (not comparable)
* Short for quantifiable.
* Short for quantitative.

##### Derived terms

* quant fund

### Etymology 2

Uncertain. A borrowing from Latin contus (“long pole”) has been suggested, but the -a- is problematic.

#### Noun

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.

##### Derived terms

* quant pole

#### Verb

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

* quanter

### See also

* quant suff

### Anagrams

* nuqta

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan quant, from Latin quantus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkwan]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkwant]
* Homophone: quan (Central)

### Adjective

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: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.

#### Derived terms

* quant a
* quant de temps
* sabràs dos i dos quants fan

### References

* “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
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin quantum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑ̃/

### Adverb

quant
* Only used in quant à

### Further reading

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

## Middle French
### Etymology 1

From Latin quantus.

#### Adjective

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:Quant ils orent chevauchier ne sçay quantes iourneesWhen they had ridden for I don't know how many days (please note, the first word 'quant' corresponds to etymology 2 below)

#### References

* quant on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

### Etymology 2
#### Adverb

quant
* Alternative form of quand

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan can, from Latin quantus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

quant m (feminine singular quanta, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantas)
* (interrogative) how many; how much

### Adverb

quant
* (interrogative) how many; how much

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* qant, qn̈t

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin quandō.

### Conjunction

quant
* when

### Adverb

quant
* (interrogative) when

#### Descendants

* Middle French: quand, quant
** French: quand