cointe

== Middle English == === Adjective === cointe (AB language; Gloucestershire, Norfolk) alternative form of queynte == Old French == === Alternative forms === coynte, cuente, cuinte, kointe, quaint, quainte, quaynt, queint, queinte, quente, quint, quointe === Etymology === From Latin cognitus. === Adjective === cointe m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cointe) clever, intelligent ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: conto (etym. 3 and partly 4) → Middle English: queynteEnglish: quaintMiddle Scots: quentScots: whint (Orkney)→ Middle Cornish: coyntCornish: koynt === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “cointe”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. cointe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub