quintus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin quīntus (“fifth”). Doublet of quint. === Noun === quintus (vocal music) The fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony. == Latin == === Etymology === From earlier quīnctus, from Proto-Italic *kʷenktos, from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷtós, from *pénkʷe + *-tós. By surface analysis, quīnque (“five”) +‎ -tus. Compare Ancient Greek πέμπτος (pémptos), Proto-Germanic *fimftô, Proto-Balto-Slavic *pénktas. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʷiːn.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkʷin.tus] Hyphenation: quin‧tus === Numeral === quīntus (feminine quīnta, neuter quīntum); first/second-declension numeral fifth ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “quintus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “quintus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "quintus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “quintus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “quintus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “quintus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray