quintus

1. vocal musicThe fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.

plural Quintuses · plural Quinti

1. A male given name from Latin.

   “Quintus, I want a word with you,” said the other Quintus, for there are two Quinti.

   1937 September 8, Quintus Quiz [pseudonym], “Life Owes You Nothing”, in Charles Clayton Morrison, editor, The Christian Century, volume LIV, number 36, Chicago, Ill.: Christian Century Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1097, column 1

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   Q. Q.] ‘the two Quinti.’ Quintus, the brother of Cicero, and his son Quintus. […] utinam mederi] ‘would that my nearest and dearest had chosen to relieve my sufferings, rather than to aggravate them’; he refers to the Quinti and Terentia.

   1894, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Louis Claude Purser, “Part VII. Letters from Cicero’s Return to Italy after the Battle of Pharsalia to the Death of Tullia.”, in The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero, […] (Dublin University Press Series), volume IV, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co. […]; London: Longmans, Green, & Co., […], →OCLC, footnote 1, pages 239 and 256

   Cicero’s preoccupation with the slander spread by the two Quinti about him at a dangerous time would in any case have led him to focus less on everyday family ructions.

   1988, Suzanne Dixon, “The Roman Mother and the Adolescent or Adult Son”, in The Roman Mother, Beckenham, Greater London; Sydney, N.S.W.: Croom Helm, →ISBN, page 190

   Neither of the Quintuses moved, too enthralled to care what Gnaeus Pompey did to the family tyrant.

   2002, Colleen McCullough, “The March of Cato’s Ten Thousand […]”, in The October Horse (Masters of Rome; 6), London: Century, →ISBN, section 1, page 127

2. A male surname from Latin.