quintal
Portuguese, noun/kĩˈtaw/
quintal is spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A-L (7 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,280th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quintal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “yard (land with vegetable garden, next to a house)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “espaço aberto adjunto a uma casa”.
What does quintal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineyard (land with vegetable garden, next to a house)
- 2
masculinesmall farm
- 3
masculinecourtyard
noun
- 1
masculinequintal, a nonstandard unit of mass equal to 100 kg
- 2
masculinequintal, Portuguese hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass usually equivalent to 58.7 kg
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. espaço aberto adjunto a uma casa 2. denominação de várias unidades de medida de massa; dependendo do país e a época, o quintal teve vários valores
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of quintal
- quintais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quintal?
- Brazil /kĩˈtaw/
- Brazil [kĩˈtaʊ̯]
- Portugal /kĩˈtal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quintal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quintal in Portuguese?
quintal appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).