quintate.
To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).
Meaning & usage
To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).
Where this word comes from
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.
Misconstruction of quinate.
The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).
Where this word comes from
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.
Misconstruction of quinate.
Where this word comes from
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.
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