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quintus

quintus noun: the fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.

Noun

quintus

  1. (vocal music) The fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.

Proper noun capitalized: Quintus

Quintus (plural Quintuses or Quinti)

  1. A male given name from Latin
    • Q. Q.] ‘the two Quinti.’ Quintus, the brother of Cicero, and his son Quintus. […] 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.1894, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Louis Claude Purser, “Part VII. Letters from Cicero’s Return to Italy after the Battle of Pharsalia to the Death of Tullia.”, in The Correspondence of M. Tullius...
    • “Quintus, I want a word with you,” said the other Quintus, for there are two Quinti.1937 September 8, Quintus Quiz [pseudonym], “Life Owes You Nothing”, in Charles Clayton Morrison, editor, The Christian Century, volume LIV, number 36, Chicago, Ill.: Christian Century Press, →ISSN...
  2. A male surname from Latin

Forms of quintus

pluralQuintuses
pluralQuinti

Origin of quintus

Borrowed from Latin quīntus (“fifth”). Doublet of quint.

Borrowed from Latin Quīntus (“masculine praenomen”), from quīntus (“fifth”).

Questions about quintus

What does quintus mean?
Quintus means the fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.
What part of speech is quintus?
Quintus can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near quintus in the dictionary

  1. quintuplication
  2. quintuplications
  3. quintuplinerved
  4. quintupling
  5. quintuply
  6. quintus
  7. Quintuses
  8. quinua
  9. quinuclidine
  10. quinuclidines
  11. quinuclidinium

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