different between quirt vs quint

English

Etymology

From Spanish cuerda (“cord”), or Mexican Spanish cuarta (“whip”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kw??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kw?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

quirt (plural quirts)

1. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
   • about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito

     He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.

   • He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt.

   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter I:

     […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin (2001), page 96:

     She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.

   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:

     He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt.

Translations

Verb

quirt (third-person singular simple present quirts, present participle quirting, simple past and past participle quirted)

1. To strike with a quirt.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

English

Etymology

From Middle French quint, from Latin qu?ntus.

Pronunciation

• (A musical or piquet term, or a quintuplet) IPA^(key): /kw?nt/, [k?w??nt]
• (A fencing term) IPA^(key): /kw??/

Noun

quint (plural quints)

1. (music) An interval of one fifth.
2. (music) The E string of a violin.
3. (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
4. (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
   • 1965, LIFE (volume 59, number 7, page 24)

     Two days after Mrs. Shirley Ann Lawson's four girls and one boy were delivered in New Zealand, another set of quints was born to Mrs. Karin Olsen in Falun, Sweden.

5. (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
6. (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quintus (“fifth”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

quint (feminine quinta, masculine plural quints, feminine plural quintes)

1. fifth

Synonyms

• cinquè

Derived terms

• a la quinta forca

Noun

quint m (plural quints)

1. fifth

Further reading

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??nt/
• Hyphenation: quint
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

quint f (plural quinten, diminutive quintje n)

1. Superseded spelling of kwint.

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly a merging of Latin quinam (who, which) with quantus. Cognate with Occitan quin from Latin quinam.

Adjective

quint m (feminine singular quinta, masculine plural quints, feminine plural quintes)

1. (interrogative) which

   Quinta fenna as-tu viua ?

   Which woman did you see?

2. (interrogative) what

   Quint est ton niom ?

   What is your name?

3. (exclamative) what

   Quinta catastropha !

   What a catastrophe!

Synonyms

• quâl
• que

Derived terms

See also

• qui
• que
• quê

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/

Adjective

quint (feminine singular quinte, masculine plural quints, feminine plural quintes)

1. (dated) fifth, seldom used outside of titles

   L’empereur Charles-Quint; le pape Sixte-Quint.

   Synonym: cinquième

2. (archaic, medicine) Occurring at an interval of five days.

   La fièvre quinte.

Noun

quint m (plural quints)

1. (obsolete) A fifth

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Probably from English squint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?nt/
• Hyphenation: quint

Verb

quint

1. (vulgar) squeeze or contract the inner vaginal muscles, providing a tighter feel around the penis during intercourse.