quintal

Etymology 1
Late, from , from , from and  and , from , from  and , from , from , from the neuter of. Use for various non-English units, borrowed from, , , etc. The apparent relation to and  is accidental, although it possibly influenced the eventual spelling of the term. .

Noun

 * , 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
 * 1)  Various other similar units of weight in other systems.
 * 2) An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.
 * 1) An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.

Usage notes
Historically, the value varied with local values of pounds by time, location, and substance. At the time of metricization, the French quintal was 49.951 kg, the Portuguese quintal was 58.75 kg, the Spanish quintal was 46.014 kg, and the Milanese quintal was 32.67 kg. The present metric quintal is not officially recognized as part of the metric system.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: центнер
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: quintal
 * German:, ,  ,
 * Hindi: क्विंटल, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Marathi: क्विंटल
 * Norman: tchînta
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:

Etymology 2
From +.

Noun

 * 1)  A grammatical number referring to five (or more) things.

Adjective

 * 1)  Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quintal grammatical number.

Usage notes

 * It has been contested whether this grammatical phenomenon exists in human languages. If it does, it is almost entirely confined to sign languages. See also.

Etymology
, from, from , from and , from , from , from  +. .

Noun

 * , French hundredweight,
 * , French hundredweight,

Etymology
From, from , from , from and , from , from , from  +.

Noun

 * 1)  quintal, French hundredweight,

Etymology
From, from , from and , from , from , from  +.

Noun

 * 1)  quintal, French hundredweight,

Etymology 1
, from ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) yard land with vegetable garden, next to a house
 * 2) small farm
 * 3) courtyard

Etymology 2
From, from and , from  and , from , from. .

Noun

 * , Portuguese hundredweight,
 * , Portuguese hundredweight,

Etymology
, from and, from  and , from , from , from  +. .

Noun

 * , Spanish hundredweight
 * , Spanish hundredweight

Usage notes

 * Historically, the quintal varied by region, over time, and depending on the object being measured.

Etymology
Borrowed from.