quintana

See also: Quintana

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quīntāna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kinˈta.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kinˈta.na]

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

• “quintana”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “quintana” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quintana” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

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

• “quintana”, 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