quintate

Meanings

Verb

• seize or destroy one fifth (of something).

Noun

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

Origin

• First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus; in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.