quinze

Borrowed from French quinze (“fifteen”).

quinze (uncountable)

1. An old French card game of Spanish origin, players attempting to make fifteen points.

• zequin

Inherited from Latin quīndecim, from quīnque (“five”) + decem (“ten”). Compare French and Occitan quinze, Spanish quince, Italian quindici.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkin.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkin.ze]

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• Rhymes: -inze

quinze m or f

1. (cardinal number) fifteen

quinze m (plural quinzes)

1. fifteen

• cinc
• deu

• “quinze”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “quinze”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “quinze” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quinze” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin quīndecim.

quinze (invariable) (ORB, broad)

1. fifteen

• quinze in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• quinze in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French quinze, from Old French, from Latin quīndecim.

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃z/

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quinze (invariable)

1. fifteen

• rugby à quinze
• quinze-A
• quinzième
• quinze jours

• cinq
• dix

• Louisiana Creole: kinz

• “quinze”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• niquez

From Old French, from Latin quindecim.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkĩː.zə/

quinze (invariable)

1. fifteen (15)

• quinziesme

• French: quinze

From Latin quīndecim.

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quinze

1. fifteen

• quinzen

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 803.

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinze, from Latin quīndecim.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ĩzi, (Portugal) -ĩzɨ
• Hyphenation: quin‧ze

quinze m or f

1. fifteen
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 168:

     […] e voltou, quinze minutos depois, […]

     […] and he came back, fifteen minutes later, […]

quinze m (plural quinzes)

1. fifteen

• “quinze”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “quinze”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

quinze

1. obsolete spelling of quince