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7-letter words (1 found)

QUINTAL,

6-letter words (3 found)

QUAINT,QUINTA,UNITAL,

5-letter words (9 found)

INULA,QUAIL,QUANT,QUILT,QUINA,QUINT,TUINA,UNLIT,UNTIL,

4-letter words (30 found)

AITU,ALIT,ANIL,ANTI,AUNT,LAIN,LANT,LATI,LATU,LINT,LITU,LUIT,LUNA,LUNT,NAIL,QUAI,QUAT,QUIN,QUIT,TAIL,TAIN,TALI,TIAN,TINA,TUAN,TUNA,ULAN,ULNA,UNAI,UNIT,

3-letter words (28 found)

AIL,AIN,AIT,ALT,ALU,ANI,ANT,ITA,LAT,LIN,LIT,LUN,NAT,NIL,NIT,NUT,QAT,QIN,QUA,TAI,TAN,TAU,TIL,TIN,TUI,TUN,UNI,UTA,

2-letter words (15 found)

AI,AL,AN,AT,IN,IT,LA,LI,NA,NU,QI,TA,TI,UN,UT,

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Definitions and meaning of quintal

quintal

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkwɪntl/, /ˈkwɪnl/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkwɪntl/, /ˈkwɪntəl/
  • Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪntəl

Alternative forms

  • quintale (chiefly Italian contexts)
  • kintal, kintle, kantal, kental, kentle (dialectical)
  • quintell, quintall, quintaile, quintail, kyntal, kyntall, kyntayl, kintall, kyntal, kentall, kentell (obsolete)

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman quintal, from Middle French quintal, from Old French and Medieval Latin quintale and quintallus (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”), from the neuter of centēnārius (“having 100 things”). Use for various non-English units, borrowed from French quintal, Spanish quintal, Portuguese quintal, etc. The apparent relation to quint- (“five, fivefold”) and -al (“forming adjectives”) is accidental, although it possibly influenced the eventual spelling of the term. Doublet of centenary and kantar.

Noun

quintal (plural quintals)

  1. (historical) Synonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
  2. (historical) Various other similar units of weight in other systems.
  3. An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.
Usage notes

Historically, the value varied with local values of pounds by time, location, and substance. At the time of metricization, the French quintal was 49.951 kg, the Portuguese quintal was 58.75 kg, the Spanish quintal was 46.014 kg, and the Milanese quintal was 32.67 kg. The present metric quintal is not officially recognized as part of the metric system.

Coordinate terms
  • (Spanish unit of mass): libra (1⁄100 quintal), arroba (1⁄4 quintal), tonelada (20 quintals)
  • (Portuguese unit of mass): arratel (1⁄128 quintal), arroba (1⁄4 quintal), quintalejo (1⁄2 quintal), tonelada (13+1⁄2 quintals)
Derived terms
  • metric quintal
Translations

Etymology 2

From quint- (“five, fivefold”) + -al (“forming adjectives”).

Noun

quintal (plural quintals)

  1. (grammar) A grammatical number referring to five (or more) things.

Adjective

quintal (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quintal grammatical number.

Usage notes

  • It has been contested whether this grammatical phenomenon exists in human languages. If it does, it is almost entirely confined to sign languages. See also Grammatical number.

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

See also

  • (grammatical numbers) grammatical number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, quintal, paucal, plural (Category: en:Grammar)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintāle (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”), from centēnī (“100 things”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming related adjectives”). Doublet of centenaire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɛ̃.tal/

Noun

quintal m (plural quintaux)

  1. quintal, a nonstandard metric unit of mass equivalent to exactly 100 kg
  2. (historical) quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 49.95 kg

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintāle (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”), from centēnī (“100 things”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming related adjectives”).

Noun

quintal m (plural quintaulx)

  1. (historical) quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin quintāle (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”), from centēnī (“100 things”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming related adjectives”).

Noun

quintal oblique singular, m (oblique plural quintaus or quintax or quintals, nominative singular quintaus or quintax or quintals, nominative plural quintal)

  1. (historical) quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: quin‧tal

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese quintãal, from Vulgar Latin *quintanālem; equivalent to quinta +‎ -al.

Noun

quintal m (plural quintais)

  1. yard (land with vegetable garden, next to a house)
  2. small farm
  3. courtyard

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin quintāle (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”). Doublet of centenário.

Noun

quintal m (plural quintais)

  1. quintal, a nonstandard unit of mass equal to 100 kg
  2. (historical) quintal, Portuguese hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass usually equivalent to 58.7 kg
Synonyms
  • (metric unit): quintal métrico
Coordinate terms
  • (historical unit): arrátel (1⁄128 quintal), arroba (1⁄4 quintal), quintalejo (1⁄2 quintal), tonelada (13+1⁄2 quintals)
Derived terms
  • quintalejo, quintal métrico

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • qq (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin quintāle (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”), from centēnī (“100 things”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming related adjectives”). Doublet of centenario.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kinˈtal/ [kĩn̪ˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: quin‧tal

Noun

quintal m (plural quintales)

  1. quintal (an unofficial metric unit of mass equal to exactly 100 kg)
  2. (chiefly historical) quintal, Spanish hundredweight (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 46 kg)

Usage notes

  • Historically, the quintal varied by region, over time, and depending on the object being measured.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Zoogocho Zapotec: quintal

Further reading

  • “quintal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quintal.

Noun

quintal

  1. hundredweight

References

  • Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 286

Source: wiktionary.org