different between quintile vs quintain

English

Noun

quintile (plural quintiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
2. (by extension) A subset thus obtained.
3. (astrology) An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)

Synonyms

• fifth

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)

Translations

Anagrams

• quitline

Latin

Adjective

qu?nt?le

1. nominative neuter singular of qu?nt?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of qu?nt?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of qu?nt?lis

References

• quintile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman quintaine, quinteine, Middle French quintaine, probably from Latin qu?nt?na (“street separating fifth and sixth maniples in a Roman camp”), feminine form of qu?nt?nus (“pertaining to the fifth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?nt?n/
• Hyphenation: quin?tain

Noun

quintain (plural quintains)

1. (now historical) An object (generally a post or plank on a support) set up as a target to be tilted at in jousting, or otherwise used as target practice. [from 15th c.]
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 285:

     In the tiltyard, his companions felt the juddering impact of his sword-blows and saw the muscled precision of his archery and his tilting at the quintain.

Related terms

• quintile
• quintuplicate

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