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quintal en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkwɪnl/ (US)
• /ˈkwɪntl/ (US)
• /ˈkwɪntl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈkwɪntəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman quintal, from Middle French quintal, from Old French and Medieval Latin quintale and quintallus (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”), from the neuter of centēnārius (“having 100 things”). Use for various non-English units, borrowed from French quintal, Spanish quintal, Portuguese quintal, etc. The apparent relation to quint- (“five, fivefold”) and -al (forming adjectives) is accidental, although it possibly influenced the eventual spelling of the term. Doublet of centenary, centner, and kantar.

Meanings

1. (historical) Synonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
   • In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d. 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 204:
2. (historical) Various other similar units of weight in other systems.
3. An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.

Forms

Coordinates

arroba (1⁄4 quintal) (Portuguese unit of mass) · arratel (1⁄128 quintal) (Portuguese unit of mass) · tonelada (13+1⁄2 quintals) (Portuguese unit of mass) · libra (1⁄100 quintal) (Spanish unit of mass) · arroba (1⁄4 quintal) (Spanish unit of mass) · quintalejo (1⁄2 quintal) (Portuguese unit of mass) · tonelada (20 quintals) (Spanish unit of mass)

Deriveds

metric quintal

Synonyms

hundredweight · 100 or 112 English or American pounds

Translations (26)

nrf tchînta (metric quintal of 100 kg) · bn কুইন্টাল (metric quintal of 100 kg) · es quintal métrico (metric quintal of 100 kg) · de Dezitonne (metric quintal of 100 kg) · de Zentner (metric quintal of 100 kg) · pt quintal (metric quintal of 100 kg) · de Doppelzentner (metric quintal of 100 kg) · fi sentaali (metric quintal of 100 kg) · hu mázsa (metric quintal of 100 kg) · vo kuin (metric quintal of 100 kg) · ru це́нтнер (metric quintal of 100 kg) · fr quintal (metric quintal of 100 kg) · hy ցենտներ (metric quintal of 100 kg) · hi कुंतल (metric quintal of 100 kg) · de Quintal (metric quintal of 100 kg) · eu kintal (metric quintal of 100 kg) · gl quintal (metric quintal of 100 kg) · hi कुंटल (metric quintal of 100 kg) · ro chintal (metric quintal of 100 kg) · mr क्विंटल (metric quintal of 100 kg) · ca quintar (metric quintal of 100 kg) · es quintal (metric quintal of 100 kg) · tr kental (metric quintal of 100 kg) · it quintale (metric quintal of 100 kg) · hi क्विंटल (metric quintal of 100 kg) · bg центнер (metric quintal of 100 kg)

quintal en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkwɪnl/ (US)
• /ˈkwɪntl/ (US)
• /ˈkwɪntl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈkwɪntəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From quint- (“five, fivefold”) + -al (forming adjectives).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quintal grammatical number.
   • In sign languages, on the other hand, trial, quadral and quintal forms such as found in UgSL are not uncommon. 2014, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, A Descriptive Grammar of Morphosyntactic Constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL), page 198:
   • Moreover, trial, quadral and quintal forms are given an identical status as number values in the pronominal domain. 2023, Raquel Veiga Busto, Person and Number: An Empirical Study of Catalan Sign Language Pronouns, page 102:
   • What Table 4 does not show is the possibility of even "quadral" and "quintal" forms, like yufopela 'you four', 'the four of you', yufaipela 'you five', 'the five of you'. 1995, John W. M. Verhaar, Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin: An Experiment in Corpus Linguistics, page 20:

quintal en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkwɪnl/ (US)
• /ˈkwɪntl/ (US)
• /ˈkwɪntl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈkwɪntəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From quint- (“five, fivefold”) + -al (forming adjectives).

Meanings

1. A grammatical number referring to five (or more) things.
   • All in all, this suggests that in LSC the differences observed in the motion taken by exact number pronouns is not grounded in a fundamental distinction between the dual vs. the trial, the quadral and the quintal. 2023, Raquel Veiga Busto, Person and Number: An Empirical Study of Catalan Sign Language Pronouns, page 164:
   • Furthermore, if the number-incorporated pronouns are analyzed as grammatically marked for number, distinct grammatical categories for trial, quadral and quintal must be posited. 2002, Kearsy Annette Cormier, Grammaticization of Indexic Signs: How American Sign Language Expresses Numerosity, page 69:
   • In UgSL, we find a complete set of forms for dual, trial, quadral and quintal in several paradigmatic contrasts. 2014, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, A Descriptive Grammar of Morphosyntactic Constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL), page 198:

Forms