quintaln.

Brit.

/ˈkwɪntl/, U.S.

/ˈkwɪn(t)l/

Forms:

α. late Middle English quyntoes (plural), late Middle English quyntowes (plural), late Middle English–1500s quintale, late Middle English– quintal, 1500s–1600s quintell, 1500s–1700s quintall, 1600s quintaile, 1700s quintail (North American).

β. late Middle English kyntawes (plural), late Middle English–1600s kyntall, 1500s kyntal, 1500s kyntayl, 1500s–1600s kintall, 1500s– kintal, 1900s– kintle (Newfoundland); N.E.D. (1902) also records a form late Middle English kyntal.

γ. 1500s–1700s kentall, 1600s–1700s kental, 1700s kentell, 1700s kentle, 1900s– kantal (Newfoundland); U.S. regional (New England) 1800s– kental, 1800s– kentle.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quintal; Latin quintale.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French quintal (c1220 in Old French) and its etymon post-classical Latin quintale (12th cent.; 14th cent. in a British source; also as quintallus (from 12th cent. in British sources), quintile (c1070)) < Arabic qinṭār (see kantar n.). Compare Old Occitan quintal (a1195), Catalan quintal (1242; 1150 as chintar), Spanish quintal (c1200; 1176 as quintar), Portuguese quintal (1361), Italian quintale (1305; a1300 as chintale).

(a) A unit of weight equal to one hundredweight, originally 100 lb (approx. 45.4 kg; now chiefly historical), later 112 lb (approx. 50.8 kg). (b) In the metric system: a unit of weight equal to 100 kg (approx. 220 lb).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > hundredweight

quintal1401

hundred1543

hundredweight1577

a hundred gross1659

α.

1401 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/279/29) m. 2 Bona..scilicet ferrum ad quantitatem ponder. de lxij dol. & iiij^a anglice nuncupat. Sexti & Tweyne ton tyȝt of yre and foure quyntowes.

c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 193 Of eche quintal of balayn, iiij d.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 213^v Two or more quintales of pouder.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Betweene the quintall..of Englande to that of Fraunce, there is foure poundes lost.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. i. 608 They draw yearely eight thousand quintals of Quick-siluer.

1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 627 Some French privateers have taken 3 or 4 English ships, with 15,000 quintals of fish.

1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 26 Elephants teeth so large that those of one elephant weigh two quintals.

1776 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 338 Every owner allows his flock of a thousand sheep twenty-five quintals of salt.

1813 R. Wilson Let. 14 July (1861) I. Appendix II There should be in the magazines three thousand quintals of powder.

1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) II. xxx. 135 The Easter ox..weighed well its twenty-five quintals.

1918 A. Huxley Let. 12 Aug. (1969) 160 He drains..twelve hogsheads of rich milk, to say nothing of..the thirty two quintals of sugar.

1950 H. K. Smith State of Europe xvi. 293 At best the average Hungarian acre produced only eleven quintals of wheat compared to the average of thirty quintals from the much less fertile Danish acre.

1977 in C. Brice-Bennett Our Footpr. are Everywhere iii. 332/2 [Fish] would be about $1.50 a quintal then. A quintal used to be 112 pounds. We worked hard for that.

1989 Equinox Mar. 119/1 The merchants..were paying $2 for a ‘quintal’—112 pounds (50 kg) of split, salted and dried fish.

2002 Independent 18 Sept. 3/4 In a good harvest Maria Yanes could pick more than 10 quintals (46kg bags) of raw coffee ‘cherries’.

β. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 16 ^v He wolde yeue him, C kyntawes of golde.c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxiij/1 xv kyntayls yron of the weyght of este spayne.1539 T. Pery in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 140 He sawe a brassyne bell, whiche bell myght waye ij kyntalles.1607 Browne's Merchants Avizo (new ed.) 18 In Lisbon..the Kintall of Pepper and of Ginger..is 112. pound... The kintall of most sorts of all other spices..containeth 128. pound... In most parts of France, the Kintal is 100. pound.1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World i. xxiv. §16. 38/2 An Ass with his load which commonly weighed three Kintals.1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 17 Wool [from Smyrna]..2,000 Kintals.1994 Africa: Jrnl. Internat. Afr. Inst. 64 501 One kintal of loose maize is equal to 100 kg. One kintal of sesame is the same volume, but its weight is unknown.γ. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 39 b Nothing he talks on but Kentalls of Pearle.1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 79 It will then make at Marseiles aboue two and twenty hundred Kentalls of that waight.1724 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1909) XXXXV. 92 Having about fifteen hundred Kentalls on board.1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 109 And we..got a good deale of fish, and dryed them—near 50 or 60 Kentells.1806 N. Webster Compendious Dict. Kentle,..in trade a hundred weight.1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 282 Kentles of white-fleshed cod.1964 J. Harris in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 399/2 And when the tub was full they'd have an idea how much fish they had—a tub would hold about a kantal; that would be a hundred and twelve pounds.1988 J. A. Nickerson Days to Remember 74 The size of the catch was always referred to as so many kentles (quintals), not boxes as today.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quintal
释义	quintaln. Brit. /ˈkwɪntl/, U.S. /ˈkwɪn(t)l/ Forms: α. late Middle English quyntoes (plural), late Middle English quyntowes (plural), late Middle English–1500s quintale, late Middle English– quintal, 1500s–1600s quintell, 1500s–1700s quintall, 1600s quintaile, 1700s quintail (North American). β. late Middle English kyntawes (plural), late Middle English–1600s kyntall, 1500s kyntal, 1500s kyntayl, 1500s–1600s kintall, 1500s– kintal, 1900s– kintle (Newfoundland); N.E.D. (1902) also records a form late Middle English kyntal. γ. 1500s–1700s kentall, 1600s–1700s kental, 1700s kentell, 1700s kentle, 1900s– kantal (Newfoundland); U.S. regional (New England) 1800s– kental, 1800s– kentle. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quintal; Latin quintale. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French quintal (c1220 in Old French) and its etymon post-classical Latin quintale (12th cent.; 14th cent. in a British source; also as quintallus (from 12th cent. in British sources), quintile (c1070)) < Arabic qinṭār (see kantar n.). Compare Old Occitan quintal (a1195), Catalan quintal (1242; 1150 as chintar), Spanish quintal (c1200; 1176 as quintar), Portuguese quintal (1361), Italian quintale (1305; a1300 as chintale). (a) A unit of weight equal to one hundredweight, originally 100 lb (approx. 45.4 kg; now chiefly historical), later 112 lb (approx. 50.8 kg). (b) In the metric system: a unit of weight equal to 100 kg (approx. 220 lb). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > hundredweight quintal1401 hundred1543 hundredweight1577 a hundred gross1659 α. 1401 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/279/29) m. 2 Bona..scilicet ferrum ad quantitatem ponder. de lxij dol. & iiij^a anglice nuncupat. Sexti & Tweyne ton tyȝt of yre and foure quyntowes. c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 193 Of eche quintal of balayn, iiij d. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 213^v Two or more quintales of pouder. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Betweene the quintall..of Englande to that of Fraunce, there is foure poundes lost. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. i. 608 They draw yearely eight thousand quintals of Quick-siluer. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 627 Some French privateers have taken 3 or 4 English ships, with 15,000 quintals of fish. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 26 Elephants teeth so large that those of one elephant weigh two quintals. 1776 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 338 Every owner allows his flock of a thousand sheep twenty-five quintals of salt. 1813 R. Wilson Let. 14 July (1861) I. Appendix II There should be in the magazines three thousand quintals of powder. 1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) II. xxx. 135 The Easter ox..weighed well its twenty-five quintals. 1918 A. Huxley Let. 12 Aug. (1969) 160 He drains..twelve hogsheads of rich milk, to say nothing of..the thirty two quintals of sugar. 1950 H. K. Smith State of Europe xvi. 293 At best the average Hungarian acre produced only eleven quintals of wheat compared to the average of thirty quintals from the much less fertile Danish acre. 1977 in C. Brice-Bennett Our Footpr. are Everywhere iii. 332/2 [Fish] would be about $1.50 a quintal then. A quintal used to be 112 pounds. We worked hard for that. 1989 Equinox Mar. 119/1 The merchants..were paying $2 for a ‘quintal’—112 pounds (50 kg) of split, salted and dried fish. 2002 Independent 18 Sept. 3/4 In a good harvest Maria Yanes could pick more than 10 quintals (46kg bags) of raw coffee ‘cherries’. β. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 16 ^v He wolde yeue him, C kyntawes of golde.c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxiij/1 xv kyntayls yron of the weyght of este spayne.1539 T. Pery in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 140 He sawe a brassyne bell, whiche bell myght waye ij kyntalles.1607 Browne's Merchants Avizo (new ed.) 18 In Lisbon..the Kintall of Pepper and of Ginger..is 112. pound... The kintall of most sorts of all other spices..containeth 128. pound... In most parts of France, the Kintal is 100. pound.1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World i. xxiv. §16. 38/2 An Ass with his load which commonly weighed three Kintals.1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 17 Wool [from Smyrna]..2,000 Kintals.1994 Africa: Jrnl. Internat. Afr. Inst. 64 501 One kintal of loose maize is equal to 100 kg. One kintal of sesame is the same volume, but its weight is unknown.γ. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 39 b Nothing he talks on but Kentalls of Pearle.1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 79 It will then make at Marseiles aboue two and twenty hundred Kentalls of that waight.1724 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1909) XXXXV. 92 Having about fifteen hundred Kentalls on board.1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 109 And we..got a good deale of fish, and dryed them—near 50 or 60 Kentells.1806 N. Webster Compendious Dict. Kentle,..in trade a hundred weight.1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 282 Kentles of white-fleshed cod.1964 J. Harris in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 399/2 And when the tub was full they'd have an idea how much fish they had—a tub would hold about a kantal; that would be a hundred and twelve pounds.1988 J. A. Nickerson Days to Remember 74 The size of the catch was always referred to as so many kentles (quintals), not boxes as today. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1401
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