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quinta
Word definitions for quinta in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"country house, villa," 1754, from Spanish and Portuguese quinta , originally a farm and house let out for a rent of one-fifth of its produce, from Latin quintus "one fifth," related to quinque "five" (see quinque- ).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Quinta is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae .
Usage examples of quinta.
Immediately after the selenoclasm, he had ordered the heaviest magnetron units launched and put into orbit around Quinta, on opposite sides of the planet.
Etiam Satyra Quinta haec habet: Constat omnia miracula certa ratione fieri, de quibus Epicurei prudentissime disputant.
Quintus Valerius Corvus, prefect of the Ala Quinta Gallorum - or I will be when it is fully formed.
Etiam Satyra Quinta haec habet: Constat omnia miracula certa ratione fieri, de quibus Epicurei prudentissime disputant.
In eius locum tertiam decimam legionem in Italiam mittit quae praesidia tueretur, ex quibus praesidiis quinta decima deducebatur.
The reconnoiterers would fly to Quinta and return: this would take more than seventy thousand hours, or roughly eight years.
Quinta emits, in the high and ultrahigh ranges, less than its sun, but a phenomenal amount for a lifeless planet.
Zeta, far from its larger planets, Steergard put the ship into an elliptical orbit so the astrophysicists could make their observations of Quinta.
They had no way of knowing yet whether the population of Quinta was made up of living creatures or, possibly, nonbiological automata: the heirs of an extinct civilization.
Perhaps the inhabitants of Quinta differed anatomically and physiologically from us in so fundamental a way that pictures and speech were replaced, for them, by other, nonacoustic, nonvisual senses or codes.
Quinta or undertaken by independent orbiters he considered of secondary importance.
Rotmont, and El Salam concluded by summarizing their conception of Quinta.
Every day they played out, on the simulators, different variants of the approach to Quinta as well as the tactics of establishing contact with its inhabitants.
After capturing the Quintan orbiters behind Juno and discovering their "viroids," he had deviated from the program toward excessive caution, camouflaging the ship and not sending signals to Quinta announcing visitors from outer space.
So while the dragoons made a noose about the village and the Quinta, Dulong would capture the hill.