different between quintine vs quintile

English

Etymology

Latin quintus (“fifth”).

Noun

quintine (plural not attested)

1. (botany) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument.

See also

• tercine
• quartine

Italian

Noun

quintine f

1. plural of quintina

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)