# quinta
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quinta.

### Noun

quinta (plural quintas)
* A country house in Madeira.

### Anagrams

* quaint

## Asturian
### Adjective

quinta
* feminine singular of quintu

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin quīntus (“fifth”).

### Adjective

quinta f sg
* feminine singular of quint

### Noun

quinta f (plural quintes)
* (card games) a run of five sequential cards of the same suit
* (music) fifth or fifth voice in piece of vocal polyphony
* (history, 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

#### Derived terms

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

## Franco-Provençal
### Adjective

quinta
* feminine singular of quint

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: quintas, quintât

### Verb

quinta
* third-person singular past historic of quinter

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkwin.ta/
* Rhymes: -inta
* Hyphenation: quìn‧ta

### Adjective

quinta f sg
* feminine singular of quinto

### Noun

quinta f (plural quinte)
* fifth (female equivalent of quinto)
* (theater) wing, backstage, side scene
* fifth gear
* (education) fifth year, fifth form, fifth grade
* (fencing) quinte

#### Related terms

* cinque

### Anagrams

* quanti

## Latin
### Numeral

quīnta
* inflection of quīntus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Numeral

quīntā
* ablative feminine singular of quīntus

### References

* quinta 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)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkĩ.tɐ/
* Hyphenation: quin‧ta
* Audio (Brazil):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese quintãa, from Latin quintana.

#### Noun

quinta f (plural quintas)
* wine producing estate (winery or vineyard)
* a country estate
* a manor or country mansion
* a small agricultural holding

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinta, from Latin quintam.

#### Adjective

quinta
* feminine singular of quinto
    Synonym: 5ª (abbreviation)

#### Noun

quinta f (plural quintas)
* Shortening of quinta-feira: Thursday

#### Adverb

quinta (not comparable)
* Shortening of quinta-feira: on a Thursday

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

quinta
* inflection of quintar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Etymology

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”), q.v.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkinta/ [ˈkĩn̪.t̪a]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -inta
* Syllabification: quin‧ta

### Noun

quinta f (plural quintas)
* villa; country home
* call-up (to the army)
* group of people who are the same age; cohort
    Somos todos de la misma quintaWe are all the same age.
* (card games) straight flush (in some games)

#### Derived terms

* entrar en quintas
* llamar a quintas

### Adjective

quinta f
* feminine singular of quinto

### Further reading

* “quinta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10