different between hundredweight vs quintal

English

Alternative forms

• cwt. (abbreviation)

Etymology

16th century, from hundred +? weight.

Noun

hundredweight (plural hundredweight or hundredweights)

1. (Canada, US) A measure of weight containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (45.5 kg).

   Synonyms: (historical) cental, (rare) centner, short hundredweight, (historical) quintal

2. (Britain) A measure of weight containing 8 stone or 112 avoirdupois pounds (51 kg).

   Synonyms: long hundredweight, imperial hundredweight

Usage notes

• The short hundredweight is commonly used in the US in the sale of livestock and some cereal grains and oilseeds, paper, and concrete additives and on some commodities in futures exchanges. Since increasing metrication in most English-speaking countries the long hundredweight is now less used.

• The older designation and measure of weight quintal (“hundredweight”) is not standardized; see the usage notes there for more information.

Descendants

• ? Bengali: *??????? (*hôndôrd)
  • Bengali: ????? (hôndôr)

See also

• bushel
• quintal

Translations

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman quintal, Middle French quintal, via Old French from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic ????????? (qin??r), ultimately from Latin cent?n?rium. Doublet of centenary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?nt?l/

Noun

quintal (plural quintals)

1. (historical except India) A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.

   Synonym: hundredweight

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 204:

     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.

2. One hundred kilograms.

Usage notes

The quintal is not standardized in the International System of Units. In modern use it usually corresponds to 100 kilograms; before the introduction of the metric system the value varied according to the weight of the local pound. A French quintal was 49.951 kg, a Portuguese quintal 58.75 kg, a Spanish quintal 46.014 kg and an Italian quintale 32.67 kg (in Milan).

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic ????????? (qin??r), ultimately from Latin centenarius. Doublet of centenaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.tal/

Noun

quintal m (plural quintaux)

1. (historical) quintal (49.951 kg)
2. quintal (100 kg)

Further reading

• “quintal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic ????????? (qin??r), ultimately from Latin centenarius.

Noun

quintal m (plural quintaulx)

1. quintal (hundredweight)

Old French

Etymology

Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic ????????? (qin??r), ultimately from Latin centenarius.

Noun

quintal m (oblique plural quintaus or quintax or quintals, nominative singular quintaus or quintax or quintals, nominative plural quintal)

1. quintal (hundredweight)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?ta?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /k?.?taw/
• Hyphenation: quin?tal

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese quintãal, from Vulgar Latin *quintanale; or from quinta +? -al.

Noun

quintal m (plural quintais)

1. yard (land around a house)

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????????? (qin??r), from Byzantine Greek ??????????? (kent?nárion), from Latin cent?n?rium (“hundredweight”). Doublet of centenário.

Noun

quintal m (plural quintais)

1. quintal (obsolete measure of one hundred pounds)

Derived terms

• quintal métrico

Spanish

Alternative forms

• qq (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Late Latin quint?le, from Arabic ????????? (qin??r), ultimately from Latin cent?n?rius. Doublet of centenario.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kin?tal/, [k?n??t?al]

Noun

quintal m (plural quintales)

1. hundredweight

Usage notes

The exact definition of a quintal varies locally, usually being 46 kg or 100 kg (if the latter is meant, it may be distinguished by being called the quintal métrico).

Derived terms

See also

• centena

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quintal.

Noun

quintal

1. hundredweight

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 286