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quintal.

yard (land with vegetable garden, next to a house)

7 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/kĩˈtaw/Brazil[kĩˈtaʊ̯]Brazil/kĩˈtal/Portugal[kĩˈtaɫ]Portugal
  1. yard (land with vegetable garden, next to a house)

    masculine
  2. small farm

    masculine
  3. courtyard

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese quintãal, from Vulgar Latin *quintanālem; equivalent to quinta + -al.

noun/kĩˈtaw/Brazil[kĩˈtaʊ̯]Brazil/kĩˈtal/Portugal[kĩˈtaɫ]Portugal
  1. quintal, a nonstandard unit of mass equal to 100 kg

    masculine
  2. quintal, Portuguese hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass usually equivalent to 58.7 kg

    historical · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Medieval Latin quintāle (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”). Doublet of centenário.

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