different between quin vs quib

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?n/, [k?w??n]
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: Quinn

Etymology 1

Noun

quin (plural quins)

1. (informal) A quintuplet.

Related terms

• quad

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

quin (plural quins)

1. A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.
   • 1973, N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution (page 104)

     Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin quinam.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kin/

Adjective

quin (feminine quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quines)

1. (interrogative) which, what
2. what a

Related terms

• qui

Further reading

• “quin” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/

Interjection

quin

1. (Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

Ido

Pronoun

quin

1. (interrogative) whom (plural) (object)

Usage notes

To ask for a subject, use qui instead.

Latin

Etymology

From instrumental qu? + ne.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?i?n/, [k?i?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwin/, [kwin]

Adverb

qu?n (not comparable)

1. (usually with present indicative) how come not, why don't I/you/he ..., how about? (in questioning suggestions)

   Synonyms: quid est quod n?n, c?r n?n, qu?r? n?n?

   1. (in commands with imperative, subjunctive or future) come on, let's, ...then! (adding force)

      Synonyms: age, fac
2. (emphatic) Used to corroborate or amplify the previous statement: and even, and in fact
   1. Strengthened by various adverbs:
   2. Used to emphasise an objection to the previous statement: why, but ...!

Conjunction

qu?n

1. (used with a negative like n?m? or n?llus) who does/can/would not (usually following a nominative)

   Synonym: qu?/quae/quod n?n (in the nominative mostly)
2. (used with a negative like numquam or n?n) without (something happening), (so) that...not

   Synonym: ut n?n
3. (preceded by n?n, followed by sed quod/quia) not because not...but, not that not...but

   Synonym: (n?n) quod/quia...n?n
4. (with negated verbs of stopping, hindering) from doing or happening

   Synonym: qu?minus, n?
5. (used with negated words of hesitation, doubting, not knowing) that

References

• “qu?n” on page 1712 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• quin in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quin in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quin in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin quinam (who, which). Cognate with Catalan quin and with Franco-Provençal quint from a merging of Latin quinam and quantus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kin/

Adjective

quin m (feminine singular quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quinas)

1. (interrogative) which

2. (interrogative) what

3. (exclamative) what

Synonyms

• qual (for animate objects)
• que (for inanimate objects)

Derived terms

• quinament

English

Etymology

See quibble.

Noun

quib (plural quibs)

1. (archaic) A quip or gibe.