quintate

verb
/ˈkwɪnteɪt/UK

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from quīntus — “fifth

Definitions

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

  2. Misconstruction of quinate.

    • Potentilla Reptans, Cinquefoil, a…European herb, with leaves which are usually quintate, and have thus given origin to the ordinary name of the plant.
    • The radical leaves…are ternate or quintate, with lobed and dentate leaflets.
    • The large quintate leaves constitute a luxuriant, glossy green foliage.
  3. The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next…

    The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).

    • We have as variations for the numbers from 6 to 9, 6 = X + 1…, 7 = X + 2, etc.,…the numerals of the second quintate repeating without the use of the expressed base five.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quintate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA