quintar
Portuguese, verb/kĩˈta(ʁ)/
quintar is spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written Portuguese, the 248,872nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quintar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to take a fifth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “repartir por cinco; tirar a quinta parte de um todo”.
What does quintar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take a fifth
verb
- 1
Brazilcolloquialto become Thursday
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. repartir por cinco; tirar a quinta parte de um todo 2. tirar um de cinco 3. escolher o último homem, de cada grupo de cinco em fila, para ser espingardeado
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 quintar
- quinto first-person present singular
- quintei first-person preterite singular
- quintado participle past
- quintares infinitive second-person singular
- quintarmos first-person infinitive plural
- quintardes infinitive plural second-person
- quintarem infinitive plural third-person
- quintando gerund
- quintados masculine participle past
- quintada feminine participle past
- quintadas feminine participle past
- quintas indicative present second-person
- quinta indicative present singular
- quintamos first-person indicative plural
- quintais indicative plural present
- quintam indicative plural present
- quintava first-person imperfect indicative
- quintavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quintar?
- Brazil /kĩˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kĩˈta(h)]
- /kĩˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is quintar in Portuguese?
quintar appears about once in every 83 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).