quintain

Significado (Inglés)

An object (generally a post or plank on a support) set up as a target to be tilted at in jousting, or otherwise used as target practice.

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Traducións

Con guión como
quin‧tain
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ˈkwɪntɪn/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From Anglo-Norman quintaine, quinteine, Middle French quintaine, probably from Latin quīntāna (“street separating fifth and sixth maniples in a Roman camp”), feminine form of quīntānus (“pertaining to the fifth”).

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