quintate

Meanings

Plural: quintates

Verb

To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).

Adj

Misconstruction of quinate.

Noun

Misconstruction of quinate.
The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).

Origin / Etymology

First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus (“fifth”); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.

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