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Quintus
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quintus
English
Etymology
From en la Quīntus, from la quīntus fifth and originally intending a fifth-born son, uninclusive of daughters. en Quint.
Proper noun
+ Quinti
en male Latin.
en 1894 w:Robert Yelverton Tyrrell; w:Louis Claude Purser Part VII. Letters from Cicero’s Return to Italy after the Battle of Pharsalia to the Death of Tullia. The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero,Arranged According to Its Chronological Order; with a Revision of the Text, a Commentary, and Introductory Essays. Dublin University Press Series IV Dublin Hodges, Figgis, & Co.(Ltd.), Grafton-Street.; London: Longmans, Green, & Co.,Paternoster-Row. footnote 1 239 and 256 10553944 Q. Q.] ‘the two Quinti.’ Quintus, the brother of Cicero, and his son Quintus. la utinam mederi] ‘would that my nearest and dearest had chosen to relieve my sufferings, rather than to aggravate them’; he refers to the Quinti and Terentia.
en 8 September 1937 Quintus Quiz pseudonym Life Owes You Nothing w:Charles Clayton Morrison w:The Christian Century LIV 36 Chicago, Ill. Christian Century Press 1097 https://archive.org/details/sim_christian-century_1937-09-08_54_36/page/1097/mode/1up 1 0009-5281 6083626 “Quintus, I want a word with you,” said the other Quintus, for there are two Quinti.
en 1988 w:Suzanne Dixon The Roman Mother and the Adolescent or Adult Son The Roman Mother Beckenham, Greater London; Sydney, N.S.W. Croom Helm 190 https://archive.org/details/romanmother0000dixo/page/190/mode/1up 0-7099-4511-6 Cicero’s preoccupation with the slander spread by the two Quinti about him at a dangerous time would in any case have led him to focus less on everyday family ructions.
en 2002 w:Colleen McCullough The March of Cato’s Ten ThousandFrom Sextilis (August) of 48 B.C. until May of 47 B.C. w:The October Horse w:Masters of Rome 6 London Century 1 127 https://archive.org/details/octoberhorse0000mccu_c4o7/page/127/mode/1up 0 712 68056 X Neither of the Quintuses moved, too enthralled to care what Gnaeus Pompey did to the family tyrant.
en male Latin.
Translations
Catalan: ca Quint
Dutch: nl Kwint, nl Kwinten, nl Quint, nl Quinten
French: fr Quint, fr Quentin
Greek: el Κόιντος, el Κοΐντας
Ancient Greek: grc Κόϊντος & many variants
Italian: it Quinto
Old Nubian: onw ⲕⲩⲉⲓⲛⲧ
Polish: pl Kwintus
Portuguese: pt Quinto
Russian: ru Квинт
Spanish: es Quinto
Swedish: sv Qvintus, sv Quintus
Latin
Alternative forms
la Q. Qu. Quīnctus
Etymology
la :der quīntus<t:fifth> ++ 1 The original use was for naming a fifth-born son, uninclusive of any daughters.
Pronunciation
Quīntus
Proper noun
Quīntus<2.both>
Quintus, .
Declension
Quīntus<2.both>
Derived terms
la Quīnctiānus Quīnctilius Quīnta Quīntiānus Quīntiliānus Quīntilis Quīntillus Quīntiniānus Quīntīnus Quīntīpor Quīntius
Descendants
ca Quint
co Quintu
nl 1 Kwint Quint
en 1 Quintus Quint
fr Quint
grc 1 Κόϊντος Κύϊντος Κουίντος Κούϊντος Κύειντος Κύντος
el 1 Κόιντος, el Κοΐντας
onw ⲕⲩⲉⲓⲛⲧ
it Quinto
pl 1 Kwintus
pt Quinto
ru 1 Квинт
sh 1 Kvint
sl 1 Kvint
es Quinto
sv 1 Qvintus Quintus
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