quintaine

French

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Noun

quintaine f (plural quintaines)

1. quintain

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• quinteine
• quintine

Etymology

Probably from Latin quīntāna (“street separating fifth and sixth maniples in a Roman camp”), feminine form of quīntānus (“pertaining to the fifth”).

Noun

quintaine oblique singular, f (oblique plural quintaines, nominative singular quintaine, nominative plural quintaines)

1. quintain (target)

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: quintaine, quinteine
  • → English: quintain
    • → Welsh: cwinten
• French: quintaine

References

• quintaine on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub