quinte

See also: Quinte and quinté

English

Etymology

From French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃t/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛ̃t

Noun

quinte (uncountable)

1. (fencing) The fifth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee height.

See also

• quint

Anagrams

• queint

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

quinte

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃t/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

Adjective

quinte

1. feminine singular of quint

Noun

quinte f (plural quintes)

1. (fencing) quinte

   Coordinate terms: quarte, tierce

2. (music) fifth (musical interval), quintus (choir)

   quinte juste ― perfect fifth

   quinte augmentée ― augmented fifth

   quinte diminuée ― diminished fifth

   fausse quinte ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (card games) (five-card) straight

   quinte flush ― straight flush

4. fit (of coughing)

   une quinte de toux ― a coughing fit

   • 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:

     Les quintes de toux duraient des heures, il poussait des cris toute la journée, et particulièrement la nuit, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (by extension, dated) sudden huff; tantrum

   Je ne sais quelle quinte lui a pris. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• quinteux

Verb

quinte

1. inflection of quinter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• enquit, enquît

Interlingua

Adjective

quinte

1. fifth

Italian

Adjective

quinte f pl

1. feminine plural of quinto

Noun

quinte f

1. plural of quinta

Latin

Numeral

quīnte

1. vocative masculine singular of quīntus

Old French

Adjective

quinte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quinte)

1. fifth (ordinal adjective)

Portuguese

Verb

quinte

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