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quintuplet

Today it means: A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four. Full definition →

Middle French quintuple

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Middle French · derived fromquintuple
English todayquintuplet

From quintuple + -et, from Middle French quintuple.

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchquintuple all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.