quintain

Reikšmė

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.

Brūkšnelis kaip

quin‧tain

Tariama kaip (IPA)

/ˈkwɪntɪn/

Etimologija

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”).