quintal
/ˈkwɪntl/US/ˈkwɪntl/
quintal noun: synonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
Noun (1)
quintal (plural quintals)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds
- Various other similar units of weight in other systems.
- An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.
Noun (2)
quintal (plural quintals)
- A grammatical number referring to five (or more) things.
- 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
Adjective
quintal (not comparable)
- Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quintal grammatical number.
- 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
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Quintal
Quintal (plural Quintals)
- A surname.
quintal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
quintal in Hindi
- metric quintal of 100 kg
- क्विंटल kviṇṭal, कुंटल kuṇṭal, कुंतल kuntal
quintal in Tamil
- எடை அளவின் ஓரலகு, குவிண்டால் எடை அளவு, குயின்ரல், கோணமானி
quintal in Marathi
- metric quintal of 100 kg
- क्विंटल kviṇṭal
quintal in Bengali
- metric quintal of 100 kg
- কুইন্টাল kuinṭal
More languagesFewer languages
- quintal in Malayalam
- നൂറ് കിലോ ഗ്രാം
Synonyms of quintal
- hundredweight
- 100 or 112 English or American pounds
Forms of quintal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | quintals |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Quintals |
Origin of quintal
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.
From quint- (“five, fivefold”) + -al (forming adjectives).
Words formed from quintal
- metric quintal
Questions about quintal
- What does quintal mean?
- Quintal means synonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
- What is quintal in Hindi?
- Quintal in Hindi is क्विंटल (kviṇṭal), कुंटल (kuṇṭal), कुंतल (kuntal). See Quintal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is quintal?
- Quintal can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce quintal?
- Quintal is pronounced /ˈkwɪntl/ (US).
- What is the plural of quintal?
- The plural of quintal is quintals.
Words near quintal in the dictionary
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