quinqué

See also: quinque and quinque-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French quinquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [kiŋˈke]
• Hyphenation: quin‧qué

Noun

quinqué m (plural quinqués)

1. Argand lamp (kind of oil-burning lamp)

Further reading

• “quinqué”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “quinqué” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French quinquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kinˈke/ [kĩŋˈke]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: quin‧qué

Noun

quinqué m (plural quinqués)

1. Argand lamp (kind of oil-burning lamp)

   Synonym: lámpara de Argand

Further reading

• quinqué on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “quinqué”, 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