The story
- Latin · derived fromquintus“fifth”
- English todayquintic
Words from the same roots
Latinquintus all →
Quincyquintetquintquintusquint-quintatequintinequintuplicate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
quintic
Today it means: Of or relating to the fifth degree, such as a quintic polynomial which has the form ax⁵+bx⁴+cx³+dx²+ex+f=0 (containing a term with the independent variable raised to the fifth power). Full definition →
Latin quintus