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- Latin · derived fromquīntus“fifth”
- English todayquintate
First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus (“fifth”); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.
Words from the same roots
Latinquīntus all →
Quincyquintetquintquintusquinticquint-quintinequintuplicate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.