quintal.
yard (land with vegetable garden, next to a house)
Meaning & usage
yard (land with vegetable garden, next to a house)
small farm
courtyard
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese quintãal, from Vulgar Latin *quintanālem; equivalent to quinta + -al.
quintal, a nonstandard unit of mass equal to 100 kg
quintal, Portuguese hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass usually equivalent to 58.7 kg
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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