quinate

Meanings

Adjective

• Featuring five leaflet growing from a single point; quinquefoliolate.

Noun

• An ester or a salt of quinic acid.

Origin

• First attested in 1760; from the post-Classical Latin quīnātus, from the distributive numeral quīnī; compare binate, ternate, and quaternate, as well as the French quiné.
• First attested in 1810; either quina + -ate or quinic + -ate, in either case perhaps after the French quinquinate; compare the French kinate, quinate.