Etymograph

English

quintate

Quintate comes from Latin quīntus ‘fifth’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe ‘five’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pénkʷe‘five’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*penkʷtós‘fifth’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kʷenktos‘fifth’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquīnctus
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEquīntus‘fifth’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1851quintate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pénkʷe‘five’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*penkʷtós‘fifth’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kʷenktos‘fifth’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquīnctus
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEquīntus‘fifth’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1851quintate

Earliest quotation: 1851, The Dispensatory of the United States of America: “Potentilla Reptans, Cinquefoil, a…European herb, with leaves which are…”

first attested First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus (“fifth”); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus (‘fifth’); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe ‘five’

five, punch, finger, fin, pimp, pentagon, cinque, quine, 23 more

through Proto-Indo-European *penkʷtós ‘fifth’

fifth, 8 more

Today it means

verb To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe / quintate

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