different between quintuplicate vs quintain

English

Etymology

From Latin quintus (“fifth”) + plicare (“to fold”); probably patterned after duplicate from Latin duplicare (“to double”).

Adjective

quintuplicate (not comparable)

1. Multiplied by five.
2. Being the fifth in a set of five.

Noun

quintuplicate (plural quintuplicates)

1. A set of five similar or identical things.
2. One element of such a set.

Verb

quintuplicate (third-person singular simple present quintuplicates, present participle quintuplicating, simple past and past participle quintuplicated)

1. (transitive) To multiply by five.
2. (transitive) To make five copies of.

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Italian

Verb

quintuplicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of quintuplicare
2. second-person plural imperative of quintuplicare
3. feminine plural of quintuplicato

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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