quintate

Meanings

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

1. Misconstruction of quinate.

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

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.