quintana

See also: Quintana

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Etymology

From Latin quīntāna.

Pronunciation

Noun

quintana f (plural quintanes)

  1. A term for various types of farm fields:
    1. The cultivated field closest to a farmhouse.
      Synonym: quintà
    2. (Valencia) A field adjoining a farmhouse or village.
    3. (Penedès, Menorca) An uncultivated field near a farmhouse or village.
    4. (Mancor, Llucmajor) A pen for livestock near a farmhouse or village.
    5. farmyard (enclosed area surrounding a peasant cottage)
  2. (historical) A measure of land area equivalent to a fifth of a mujada (approximately 980 m²)
  3. (historical) quintaine (jousting game)

Further reading

Italian

Noun

quintana f (plural quintane)

  1. quintan fever
  2. quintain, joust

Latin

Etymology

From quintanus (the fifth), from quintus +‎ -anus.

Noun

quīntāna f (genitive quīntānae); first declension

  1. A street in the Roman camp, separating the fifth and sixth maniples, containing the marketplace

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative quīntāna quīntānae
genitive quīntānae quīntānārum
dative quīntānae quīntānīs
accusative quīntānam quīntānās
ablative quīntānā quīntānīs
vocative quīntāna quīntānae

Descendants

  • Galician: Quintá, Quintán (place names); quinteiro (derived)
  • Italian: quintana
  • Old French: quintaine
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: quintãa
    • Portuguese: quinta
    • Portuguese: quintã
  • Spanish: quinta

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin quintana (the fifth), giving name to one of the roads of the Roman camp where people used to sell groceries.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kinˈtana/ [kĩn̪ˈt̪a.na]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: quin‧ta‧na

Noun

quintana f (plural quintanas)

  1. the fifth
  2. one of the roads of the Roman camp
  3. place
  4. farmhouse in the countryside or in a village

Adjective

quintana f

  1. feminine singular of quintano

Further reading