Crossword clues for quinta
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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Quinta is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Quinta is the stage name of Katherine Mann, a London-based multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, composer and session player. She plays the violin, viola, musical saw, and keyboards. Mann's father nicknamed her "Quinta" when she was a baby; he was a teacher of Latin and Greek, and she was the fifth of five children.
Mann joined Bat for Lashes’ live line-up in 2007 and toured the UK and Europe the following year as part of Bat for Lashes’ Radiohead support tour. She was solo accompanist to Patrick Wolf on his Sundark Riverlight Acoustic World Tour during 2012.
Mann plays with Philip Selway, The Paper Cinema, and Marques Toliver, amongst others, and in 2009 released her debut album ‘My Sister Boudicca’ on the Tartaruga record label.
Quinta may refer to:
- Quinta (agriculture) in Portugal
- Quinta (musician), British multi-instrumentalist
- In medieval music theory, alternative term for diapente (perfect fifth)
- Quinta (skipper), genus of butterflies
- Claudia Quinta, Roman matron
- Quintus (vocal music), fifth voice in polyphony
Quinta is the Portuguese term for a " farm".
It has been used however to also describe vineyards. The civil parish of Quinta Grande on the island of Madeira is also named after the vineyards and farmlands. The Quinta da Bica is historic vineyard.
The term was later also kept to name generally larger land estates that might originally have been used for agricultural purposes, but were converted into residential estates.
The aristocratic estates of Quinta da Regaleira and the Quinta do Relógio in Sintra, as well as the Quinta da Bacalhoa outside Lisbon are well-known examples.
Category:Agriculture in Portugal
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.