# quinto
## Asturian
### Adjective

quinto
* neuter of quintu

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

quinto
* fifthly; in fifth place

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* 5º m, 5ª f (abbreviation)

### Etymology

From Latin quintus.

### Adjective

quinto (feminine quinta, masculine plural quintos, feminine plural quintas)
* fifth

### Noun

quinto m (plural quintos)
* fifth

### Further reading

* “quinto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin quīntus, from quīnque.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkwin.to/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -into
* Hyphenation: quìn‧to

### Adjective

quinto (feminine quinta, masculine plural quinti, feminine plural quinte)
* (ordinal number) fifth

### Noun

quinto m (plural quinti)
* (fractional number) fifth

#### Related terms

* quintessenza
* quintetto
* quintino
* quintultimo, quint'ultimo
* quintuplo

## Latin
### Numeral

quīntō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of quīntus

### References

* “quinto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “quinto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* quinto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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
* quinto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinto, from Latin quīntus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkĩ.tu/
* Hyphenation: quin‧to

#### Adjective

quinto (feminine quinta, masculine plural quintos, feminine plural quintas)
* (ordinal number) fifth

#### Noun

quinto m (plural quintos)
* (fractional number) fifth (one of five parts of a whole)

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:quinto.

##### Derived terms

* quintar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

quinto
* first-person singular present indicative of quintar

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin quintus. Pushed out Old Spanish cinquén(o), quintén(o) in line with the re-Latinization of many other numerals – compare Ladino sinkeno. The meanings “18-year-old boy” and “conscript” comes from the days of King John II of Castile, who decreed that one boy in five were obliged to serve in the army.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkinto/ [ˈkĩn̪.t̪o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -into
* Syllabification: quin‧to

### Adjective

quinto (feminine quinta, masculine plural quintos, feminine plural quintas)
* (ordinal number) fifth

### Noun

quinto m (plural quintos)
* (fractional number) fifth, $^1$⁄$_5$
* a boy who takes part in any of various rites of passage upon turning 18 in various towns in Spain
* (Catalonia, slang) a small beer bottle
* (obsolete, Spain) conscript

#### Derived terms

* bajo quinto
* en el quinto coño
* en la quinta puñeta
* entrar en quintas
* los quintos infiernos
* primo quinto
* puta de quinta
* quinta columna
* quinta rueda
* quinto infierno
* quinto pino

#### Related terms

* quiniela
* quinientos
* quinta
* quintal

#### See also

Quintos (rite of passage) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{es}$

### Further reading

* “quinto”, 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