different between quoin vs quin

English

Etymology

Variant of coin; compare coign.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n/
• Homophones: coin, coign
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

quoin (plural quoins)

1. Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
   • 1901, Thomas Hardy, A Man (In Memory Of H. Of M.)

     In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, […]
     But evil days beset that domicile;
     The stately beauties of its roof and wall
     Passed into sordid hands. Condemned to fall
     Were cornice, quoin, and cove,
     And all that art had wove in antique style.

2. The keystone of an arch.
3. (printing, historical) A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
   • 1898, John Southward, Modern Printing: A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Typography and the Auxiliary Arts

     Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.

4. (obsolete, nautical) A form of wedge used to prevent casks from moving
5. (firearms) A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
6. (horticulture) A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.

Synonyms

• (corner block of a building): cornerstone

Derived terms

• quinie

Verb

quoin (third-person singular simple present quoins, present participle quoining, simple past and past participle quoined)

1. (transitive) To wedge or steady with quoins.

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