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quine

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kwaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Quine, named after the American logician and philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000).

Verb sense 1 (“to append (a text) to a quotation of itself”) was coined by the American cognitive and computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945) in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979; see the quotation), referring to Quine’s study of indirect self-referencing and in particular Quine’s paradox, the following statement that produces a paradox: “‘Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation’ yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.” Hofstadter also referred to the concept of noun sense 1 (“program that produces its own source code as output”) in the book, but termed it a self-rep rather than a quine.

Verb sense 2 (“to deny the importance or significance of (something obviously real or important)”) was independently coined by the American cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett (1942–2024) in September 1969 in the original version of his work The Philosophical Lexicon: see the 1987 quotation.

Noun

quine (plural quines)

2. (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.

Related terms

• Quine

Translations

Verb

quine (third-person singular simple present quines, present participle quining, simple past and past participle quined) (transitive)

2. To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.
4. (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of (something obviously real or important).

Derived terms

• quiner
• quined (adjective)
• quining (noun)

Translations

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin quīnī (“five at a time; five together”), a plural form of quīnus (“five at a time; five each”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“five; hand”).

Adjective

quine (not comparable)

1. (botany, obsolete, rare) Of leaves: arranged in whorls of five.

   Coordinate terms: quatern, tern

Related terms

• quinary
• quinate

References

Further reading

• quine (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Quine’s paradox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (2003 December 29), “quine”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quīnus (“fivefold; five by five”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kin/

Noun

quine m (plural quines)

1. set of five, group of five (such as the digits on one hand)

Descendants

• → Dutch: kien
• → English: keno

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiː.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiː.ne]

Numeral

quīne

1. vocative masculine singular of quīnus

Portuguese

Verb

quine

1. inflection of quinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Scots

Noun

quine (plural quines)

1. Doric Scots form of quean (“young woman, girl”)