quinaire
French, adjective\ki.nɛʁ\
quinaire is spelled Q-U-I-N-A-I-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quinaire is a French adjective meaning “quinary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est divisible par cinq”.
What does quinaire mean in English?
adjective
- 1
quinary
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est divisible par cinq. 2. Qui compte par cinq. 3. Qui utilise cinq. 4. Qui ne comporte que cinq éléments ou ne propose que cinq options, précisément, strictement et invariablement.
noun: 1. Nom par lequel les monétaires anciens et les archéologues désignent les pièces de monnaie de deuxième grandeur, fabriquées soit en or, soit en argent.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of quinaire
- quinaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quinaire?
- \ki.nɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quinaire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quinaire in French?
quinaire appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).