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单词 quint
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quintn.1

Brit. /k(w)ɪnt/, U.S. /kwɪnt/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s quinte, 1700s– quint.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quint, quinte; Latin quīnta, quīntus.
Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French quint (masculine) one fifth (c1170 in Old French), tax of one fifth (13th cent.; in Anglo-Norman also quinte (feminine) (13th or 14th cent.)), also quinte (feminine) fifth in music (1372), uses as noun (of masculine and feminine respectively) of quint (adjective) fifth (c1100 in Old French) < classical Latin quīntus (see below), and partly < classical Latin quīnta tax of one fifth (short for quīnta pars fifth part), in post-classical Latin also fifth in music (1533), uses as noun of feminine of quīntus fifth < the same Indo-European base as fifth adj.With classical Latin quīntus compare Old Occitan quint (1150 in sense 1), quinta (c1250 in sense 2a), Catalan quint (last quarter of 12th cent. in sense 1), quinta (1310 in sense 1, early 15th cent. in sense 2a), Spanish quinto (1115 in sense 1), quinta (c1129 in sense 1), and Portuguese quinto, adjective and noun (13th cent.), Italian quinto, adjective and noun (c1225), both in sense ‘fifth’. An unattested classical Latin form *quinctus is preserved in the proper names Quinctius, name of a gens, Quinctīlis, name of a month.
1. A tax of one fifth. Now chiefly historical.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > one-fifth
quinta1452
fifth1557
a1452 in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. 15th Cent. (1913) 362 (MED) The Quinte of the Dymes of Clergye in the province of Canterbury is xvj m..li.
1556 Surv. Calais in Archaeologia (1893) 53 App. ii. 371 He must paye to the kinge..the vth pennie of his goods for the quinte.
1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana vi. 104 They..are a peculiar Jusidiction, paying the King his Quint or Fifth, which is reserv'd in all Grants of the Crown of Spain and Portugal.
1760 State of France 3 Quint and requint: a tax of a fifth, and the fifth part of a fifth, belonging to the king, on the sale of all land situated in and depending on his domains.
1833 H. C. Todd Notes on Canada (1835) 86 When a seigniory is sold, one fifth, called the King's quints, is alienated to the crown.
1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. v. 176 The payment of the quint to the officers of the crown.
1905 Ontario Bureau Arch. Rep. III. xlix A form of succession duty insured to the Crown, known as quint, amounting to one fifth of the value of the fief, payable on every mutation of ownership by sale or inheritance.
1946 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 6 18 The gold producer must give the government the quint, which in practice amounted to one quarter rather than one fifth of the dust he had collected.
1996 M. Kochan & D. Littman in B. Ye'or Decline Eastern Christianity under Islam ix. 237 Young Christian children abducted during razzias, allocated within the quint of war booty.., were reduced to slavery and converted to Islam.
2. Music.
a. = fifth n. 2. Now rare and historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > fifth
fifth1597
pentachord1694
quint1757
1757 Explan. Ocular Harpsichord 2 If..an instrument could be framed, which should, like the Harpsichord, have its tones and demi-tones, its tonics, and quints.
1806 Earl Stanhope Princ. Sci. Tuning Instruments with Fixed Tones 5 Let us tune all the following intervals by perfect quints.
1865 tr. L. Spohr Autobiogr. II. 14 Three ugly quints follow each other.
1887 J. A. L. Riley Athos 406 It is not founded upon the modern system of octaves, but is a succession of similar quints.
1898 J. Stainer Stainer & Barrett's Dict. Musical Terms (rev. ed.) 381/2 An organ stop of the gamba species, but of the pitch of a quint, or of a twelfth.
2001 New Grove Dict. Music (Electronic ed.) at Ruckers The quart virginal and the special double-manual harpsichord sounding a quint below reference both had C/E to d''' compasses.
b. An organ stop which sounds one or more octaves plus a fifth above the note played. More fully quint stop.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mutation stops > specific
twelfth1613
nineteenth1819
seventeenth1819
quint1855
1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ xxi. 110 Some [stops] sound g on the C key..Those are called ‘fifth-sounding’ or Quint Stops.
1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ xxi. 117 The Quint on the Pedal is almost invariably composed of stopped pipes.
1905 T. Casson Pedal Organ 24 I once tried the experiment of borrowing the Quint from a manual Bourdon.
1924 Musical Times Sept. 834/1 The Swell has been unaltered except for the substitution of a Vox Angelica for the Quint and a reconstitution of the Mixtures.
1992 Oxf. Compan. Musical Instruments 275/1 In organs, a Quint is a rank of pipes which sounds one or more octaves plus a fifth above the basic 8′.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quintn.2

Brit. /kwɪnt/, U.S. /kwɪnt/
Forms: 1600s– quint, 1700s quinte.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: French quinte ; quintet n.
Etymology: < French quinte (a1622 in sense 1), use as noun of feminine of quint (see quint n.1). In later use in sense 2 perhaps shortened < quintet n.In quint major n. at sense 1 after French quinte majore (1654 in this sense). In quint minor n. at sense 1 apparently after French quinte mineure (although this is first attested later: 1850 or earlier). N.E.D. (1902) states: ‘Formerly pronounced (kent) /kɛnt/ or (kǣṅt) /kæː̃t/’; compare quot. 1719 at sense 1.
1. In piquet: a sequence of five cards of the same suit, scoring fifteen. Now rare. quint major n. a quint comprising the sequence of cards from ace to ten. quint minor n. any quint not including the ace, usually that from the jack to the seven.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > piquet > [noun] > hand > combinations of cards
quint1659
quint major1659
quint minor1659
sixieme1669
sexism1688
quatorze1701
1659 H. Neville Shufling, Cutting, & Dealing 3 Two Quint Minors will win the game.
1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iv. i. 41 Zounds, the Rogue has a Quint-Major.
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester vi. 83 A Quart is a sequence of four Cards, a Quint of five, a Sixism of six, &c.
1719 R. Seymour Court Gamester 76 Quint or Quinze, fifteen, though by a Corruption of Pronunciation we call it Kent.
1720 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester i. 93 Cards..which are Sequents..are called, either Tierces, Quartes, Quintes..according to their Number and Value.
1778 T. Jones Hoyle's Games Improved 119 By which Manner of discarding, you have a Probability of scoring fifteen Points for your Quint in Diamonds.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 132 Never dealt the right number of cards..did not know a quart from a quint.
1860 Bohn's Hand-bk. Games ii. 44 Suppose you have ace..with a quint-major of another suit.
1873 ‘Cavendish’ Piquet 34 The elder hand, when calling his sequence, names it thus: ‘A quint minor’ [etc.].
1877 Sir S. Northcote in Life (1890) I. i. 3 (note) He got the point and also two quints, and thus a repique.
1915 E. A. Vizetelly tr. E. Zola Dram-Shop viii. 250 A quint in clubs. That's twenty, isn't it? Then tierce major in diamonds, twenty-three; [etc.].
2006 D. Parlett Teach Yourself Card Games (new ed.) 144 [It] might tie if she has a quint, whereas the quint major in the former would be good against a diamond quint.
2. A set of five persons or things; = quintet n. 2. rare.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [noun] > group of five > persons
quint1678
quinquevirate1710
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 183 Since the State has made a Quint Of Generals, he's listed in't.
1938 News (Frederick, Maryland) 1 Mar. 6/6 Two basketball games will be played in the high school auditorium at Sykesville. One will be between the boys' team of that institution and a quint representing the alumni.
1999 Guardian 10 June i. 2/2 The US, Britain, France, German, and Italy—the ‘quint’ as they call themselves—have rejected the idea of a Russian sector.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

quintn.3

Brit. /kwɪnt/, U.S. /kwɪnt/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: quintet n., quintuplet n.
Etymology: Shortened < either quintet n. or quintuplet n.
A cycle for five riders; = quintet n. 3.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > cycle for two or more people > for three, four, etc.
quadruplet1893
triplet1894
quint1895
quintuplet1895
quad1896
quintet1896
sextet1896
sextuplet1896
1895 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. 6/1 Peter Berlo's mile at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, on Thursday..paced by a ‘quint’, is a new world's record for the professional class.
1896 Boston M. Jrnl. 26 June 3/7 The quint made its first appearance on Memorial Day.
1897 Daily News 8 June 9/4 Betts was obliged to stop, the chain of his pacing quint having given way.
1964 Listener 13 Feb. 272/3 I may..be the world's most experienced quint rider. You don't know what a quint is?..It is, in fact, a bicycle made for five.
2006 Denver Post (Nexis) 5 June b1 The five members of the Lawrence family from Colorado Springs opted to do the 32-mile road course..on the same bike. It's called a quint bike—like a tandem, but times 2.5.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quintn.4

Brit. /kwɪnt/, U.S. /kwɪnt/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: quintuplet n.
Etymology: Shortened < quintuplet n. Compare quin n.2The shortened form was coined with reference to the Dionne sisters (born 28 May 1934 in Corbeil, Ontario), the first quintuplets known to survive infancy; they lived (1936–43) in a nursery developed as a tourist attraction known as Quintland.
North American.
= quintuplet n. 2.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > quadruplets, etc. > one of
septuplet1875
quint1934
quin1935
nonuplet1967
1934 Chicago Tribune 1 June 1/4 (headline) Doctor vetoes plan to show ‘quints’ at fair.
1979 Internat. Herald Tribune 29 May 24/7 She had overcome the traumas..and the sorrows that plagued the quints in younger years.
1984 E. Friedrich & C. Rowland Parents' Guide to raising Twins iii. 58 Occasionally, undiagnosed quads or quints are born vaginally—otherwise they are usually born by cesarean.
2004 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 14 Dec. a1 Zookeepers will wait for spring before putting the quint cubs outside for public viewing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quintadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quīntus.
Etymology: < classical Latin quīntus fifth (see quint n.1).
Obsolete. rare.
= quinary adj. 1.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective]
fivec1000
quinary1603
quinquenary1690
quint1880
quintary1942
1880 A. H. Keane in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 9 272 The Khmêr quint system of numerals recalling the Malaysian pre-decimal period, when a week of five days prevailed in the Archipelago, and traces of which are still preserved in some of the Malaysian numerals.
1881 A. H. Keane in Nature 6 Jan. 220/2 They often still retain the old quint system..in the Oceanic area now mostly replaced by the decimal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

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