Noun: quint
| Singular | quint |
| Plural | quints |
Sample Sentences
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The discard was, in fact, an experiment in bluff. Carrados might have held a quint and fourteen kings for all the opposing hand disclosed. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
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Two days after Mrs. Shirley Ann Lawson's four girls and one boy were delivered in New Zealand, another set of quints was born to Mrs. Karin Olsen in Falun, Sweden. [1965, LIFE, volume 59, number 7, page 24:]
Nouns inflected like quint
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. * From Middle French quint, from Latin quīntus. Doublet of quintus.
2. * (firefighting vehicle): In reference to its five functions: pump, water tank, fire hose, aerial device, and ground ladders. See: Latin Nouns '
quīntus'.