Noun: quintal
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | quintal |
| Plural m | quintaux |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like quintal
serval,
social,
signal,
confessionnal,
mégapascal,
hypersignal,
sacramental,
temps verbal,
zicral,
pluvial,
radiojournal,
monocristal,
diurnal,
nominal,
térakatal,
quetzal,
quintal,
os lacrymal,
salicional,
yoctokatal, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintāle (“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 centēnī (“100 things”) + -ārius (“-ary”, forming related adjective). Doublet of centenaire. See: Latin Nouns '
centēnārium'.
Verbs referencing "quintal"
English Nouns
quintal, Romanian Nouns
chintal, Polish Nouns
kwintal.
Translations