quince

See also: Quince

English

Quince fruit, flower, and seeds of the species Cydonia oblonga.

Etymology 1

From Middle English quynce, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪns/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪns

Noun

quince (countable and uncountable, plural quinces)

1. (countable) The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
2. (countable) The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
3. A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.

   quince:  

Hypernyms

• fruit
• pome

Derived terms

• Bengal quince
• Cape quince
• Chinese quince
• Japanese quince
• Japan quince
• Maule's quince
• quince cheese
• quince curculio

 

Descendants

• → Thai: ควินซ์ (kwíns)
• → Welsh: cwins

Translations

fruit

• Abkhaz: абиа (abja)
• Afrikaans: kweper (af)
• Akkadian: 𒄑𒄒𒆳𒊏 (supurgillu)
• Albanian: ftua (sq) m
• Arabic: سَفَرْجَل (safarjal)

  Hijazi Arabic: سَفَرْجَل m (safarjal)

  Moroccan Arabic: سفرجل (sfarjal)

• Aramaic: ܐܣܦܪܓܠܐ m (ʾespargəlā), ܣܦܪܓܠܐ m (spargəlā)
• Armenian: սերկեւիլ (hy) (serkewil)
• Aromanian: gutunji f, gutunje f, gãtunji f
• Avar: хӏавагӏеч (ḥʳawaʻeč), бигь (bih)
• Azerbaijani: heyva (az)
• Basque: irasagar
• Belarusian: айва́ f (ajvá)
• Bulgarian: дю́ля (bg) f (djúlja)
• Catalan: codony (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榲桲 / 榅桲 (zh) (wēnpo, yùnbó)

• Czech: kdoule (cs) f
• Danish: kvæde c
• Dutch: kweepeer (nl)
• Esperanto: cidonio
• Estonian: küdoonia
• Faroese: kveði f
• Finnish: kvitteni (fi)
• French: coing (fr)
• Friulian: codogn
• Galician: marmelo (gl) m
• Georgian: კომში (ka) (ḳomši), ბია (bia)
• German: Quitte (de) f
• Greek: κυδώνι (el) n (kydóni)

  Ancient: κυδώνιον n (kudṓnion), μῆλον στρουθίον n (mêlon strouthíon)

• Hebrew: חַבּוּשׁ (he) m (chabúsh)
• Hindi: वीही f (vīhī), बिही (hi) f (bihī)
• Hungarian: birs (hu), birsalma (hu), birskörte (hu)
• Hunsrik: Marmell f
• Icelandic: roðarunnaepli n
• Irish: cainche f
• Italian: mela cotogna f, cotogna f
• Japanese: マルメロ (ja) (marumero)
• Kazakh: айва (aiva)
• Korean: 마르멜로 (mareumello)
• Kumyk: гьайва (haywa)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەھێ (behê), بەی (bey), بێ (bê)

  Northern Kurdish: bih (ku), bî (ku), bîhok (ku), biyok (ku)

• Kyrgyz: айва (ky) (ayva), бихи (bihi)
• Ladino: bimbriyo, bembriyo
• Lak: бигь (bih)
• Latin: cotonium n
• Lithuanian: svarainis m
• Low German: Quitt f
• Luxembourgish: Quitt f
• Macedonian: дуња (mk) f (dunja)
• Malay: safarjal
• Maltese: sfarġel m
• Maori: kuini (mi), kuinihi
• Middle Persian: [script needed] (byh /⁠bēh⁠/)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvede

• Occitan: codonh (oc)
• Old English: godæpple m
• Ossetian: къомси (k’omsi), биа (bia)
• Ottoman Turkish: سفرجل (sefercel)
• Persian: به (fa) (beh), بهی (fa) (behi)
• Polish: pigwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: marmelo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬਿਹੀ f (bihī), ਸ੍ਰੀਫਲ (pa) m (srīphal)
• Romanian: gutuie (ro) f
• Romansch: cudogn m
• Russian: айва́ (ru) f (ajvá)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuinnse f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дуња f

  Roman: dunja (sh) f

• Sindhi: بھي (bihī)
• Slovak: dula (sk) f
• Slovene: kutina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dula f, kwitula f, kwjada f

  Upper Sorbian: kwita f

• Sotho: kwepere
• Spanish: membrillo (es) m
• Swedish: kvitten (sv)
• Tajik: биҳӣ (tg) (bihi), беҳ (tg) (beh)
• Thai: ควินซ์ (kwíns)
• Tigrinya: ኮቶኛ (kotoña)
• Turkish: ayva (tr)
• Ukrainian: айва́ (uk) f (ajvá)
• Uzbek: behi (uz)
• Venetan: codogno m
• Vietnamese: mộc qua
• Volapük: kvit (vo)
• Welsh: afal cwins m, cwinsen f, cwinsyn m, clesinen f (literary use)
• Zazaki: bey

tree

• Afrikaans: kweeper, kweeperboom
• Albanian: ftua (sq) m
• Armenian: սերկեւիլենի (hy) (serkewileni)
• Aromanian: gutunjiu m, gutunj m, gutunju m, gãtunjiu, gãtunj
• Avar: хӏавагӏеч (ḥʳawaʻeč)
• Basque: irasagarrondo
• Bulgarian: дюля (bg) f (djulja)
• Catalan: codonyer (ca) m
• Czech: kdouloň f
• Dutch: kweepeer (nl), kwee (nl)
• Esperanto: cidoniarbo
• Finnish: kvitteni (fi)
• French: cognassier (fr) m
• Friulian: codognâr m
• Galician: marmeleiro (gl) m
• Georgian: კომში (ka) (ḳomši), ბია (bia)
• German: Quitte (de) f, Quittenbaum (de) m
• Greek: κυδωνιά (el) f (kydoniá)
• Hindi: वीही f (vīhī), बिही (hi) f (bihī)
• Hungarian: birsalmafa (hu)
• Hunsrik: Marmellebaam m
• Irish: crann cainche m
• Italian: melocotogno m, cotogno m
• Kumyk: гьайва (haywa), гьайва терек (haywa terek)
• Macedonian: ду́ња (mk) f (dúnja)
• Middle Persian: [script needed] (byh /⁠bēh⁠/)
• Norman: bouais d'coing m
• Occitan: codonhièr (oc) m
• Persian: به (fa) (beh), بهی (fa) (behi)
• Polish: pigwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: marmelo (pt) m, marmeleiro (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬਿਹੀ f (bihī), ਸ੍ਰੀਫਲ (pa) m (srīphal)
• Romanian: gutui (ro) m
• Russian: айва́ (ru) f (ajvá)
• Sardinian: chidonza f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дуња f, дуњeвина f

  Roman: dunja (sh) f, dunjevina f

• Slovene: kutina (sl) f
• Sotho: kwepere
• Spanish: membrillo (es) m, membrillero m
• Swedish: kvitten (sv)
• Tajik: биҳӣ (tg) (bihi), беҳ (tg) (beh)
• Turkish: ayva (tr)
• Venetan: codogno
• Volapük: kvitep (vo), kvitabim (vo)
• Welsh: coeden gwins f, cwinswydden f
• Zazaki: bey

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːnseɪ/, /ˈkɪnseɪ/

Noun

quince (plural quinces)

1. (informal) Clipping of quinceañera.

   quince dress

   • 2018 March 1, David Montgomery, “Why mariachi music matters in the age of Trump”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     She dances with her father. She leans her head on the shoulder of her mother, thanking her for the surprise gift of this mariachi performance, which she had first dreamed of for her quince when she was a little girl.

   • 2019 October 24, Cat Cardenas, “How Teenagers Are Using Their Quinceañeras to Boost the Latinx Vote in Texas”, in Texas Monthly‎^[2]:

     These days many young Latinxs have chosen to sport trendier dresses rather than ball gowns, combine quince traditions with a sweet sixteen party, or even go on a quince cruise.

   • 2019 November 12, Walter Thompson-Hernández, “The Quinceañera, Redefined”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     It is now more common to see quinces as celebrations of identity, including for queer and transgender individuals, and quinces that honor more than the transition to adulthood.

Anagrams

• Cinque, cinque

Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

<  14	15	16  >
Cardinal : quince     Ordinal : decimoquintu

Etymology

From Latin quīndecim.

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

Derived terms

• quincenu

Galician

Galician numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  14	15	16  → [a], [b]
Cardinal (standard): quince     Cardinal (reintegrationist): quinze     Ordinal: décimo quinto     Ordinal abbreviation: 15º     Fractional (standard): quinceavo     Fractional (reintegrationist): quinze avos

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinze, from Latin quīndecim.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkinθe/ [ˈkin̪.θɪ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈkinθe/ [ˈkin̪.θɪ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ˈkinse/ [ˈkin.sɪ]

• Audio:

  (file)

 

• Rhymes: -inθe

• Rhymes: -inθe
• Rhymes: -inse

• Hyphenation: quin‧ce

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

Middle English

Noun

quince

1. Alternative form of quynce (“quince”)

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

←  14	15	16  →
Cardinal: quince     Ordinal: decimoquinto, décimo quinto     Ordinal abbreviation: 15.º     Fractional: quinceavo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 15

Alternative forms

• quinze (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish quinze, quindze, from Latin quīndecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈkinθe/ [ˈkĩn̟.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈkinse/ [ˈkĩn.se]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -inθe
• Rhymes: -inse
• Syllabification: quin‧ce

Numeral

quince

1. fifteen

Derived terms

• del quince
• quinceaños
• quinceavo
• quincena
• quincenario
• quinceno

 

Related terms

• cinco
• diez

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kinse
• → Tagalog: kinse

Further reading

• “quince”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10