quintet

English

Alternative forms

• quintette

Etymology

From French quintette, from Italian quintetto, diminutive of quinto (“fifth”), itself from Latin quintus, related to quīnque (“five”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪnˈtɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

English numbers ^(edit)

←  4	5	6  →
Cardinal: five     Ordinal: fifth     Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary     Reverse order ordinal: fifth to last, fifth from last, last but four     Latinate reverse order ordinal: propreantepenultimate     Adverbial: five times     Multiplier: fivefold     Latinate multiplier: quintuple     Distributive: quintuply     Germanic collective: fivesome     Collective of n parts: quintuplet, pentuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: pentad     Greek collective prefix: penta-     Latinate collective prefix: quinque-     Fractional: fifth     Elemental: quintuplet, pentuplet     Greek prefix: pempto-     Number of musicians: quintet     Number of years: quinquennium, lustrum

Noun

quintet (plural quintets)

1. (music) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
2. (music) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together
3. Any group of five members

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:quintet

Derived terms

• string quintet

 

Translations

(music) a composition in five parts

• Catalan: quintet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五重奏 (zh) (wǔchóngzòu)

• Czech: kvintet (cs) m
• Dutch: kwintet (nl) n
• Finnish: kvintetto (fi)
• French: quintette (fr) m
• Georgian: კვინტეტი (ḳvinṭeṭi)
• German: Quintett (de) n
• Greek: κουιντέτο (el) n (kouintéto)
• Hungarian: ötös (hu), kvintett (hu)
• Icelandic: kvintett (is) m
• Irish: cúigréad m
• Italian: quintetto (it) m
• Japanese: クインテット (kuintetto), 五重奏 (gojūsō), 五重唱 (gojūshō)
• Korean: 퀸텟 (kwintet), 오중주 (ko) (ojungju), 오중창 (ko) (ojungchang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvintett m

  Nynorsk: kvintett m

• Polish: kwintet (pl) m
• Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
• Romanian: cvintet (ro) n
• Russian: квинте́т (ru) m (kvintét)
• Spanish: quinteto (es) m
• Swedish: kvintett (sv) c
• Tagalog: limahan

(music) a group of five musicians

• Bulgarian: квинтет m (kvintet)
• Catalan: quintet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五重奏 (zh) (wǔchóngzòu)

• Czech: kvinteto (cs) n
• Dutch: kwintet (nl) n
• Finnish: kvintetti (fi)
• French: quintette (fr) m
• Georgian: კვინტეტი (ḳvinṭeṭi)
• German: Quintett (de) n
• Hungarian: ötös (hu), kvintett (hu)
• Icelandic: kvintett (is) m
• Irish: cúigréad m
• Italian: quintetto (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvintett m

  Nynorsk: kvintett m

• Polish: kwintet (pl) m
• Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
• Romanian: cvintet (ro) n
• Russian: квинте́т (ru) m (kvintét)
• Spanish: quinteto (es) m
• Swedish: kvintett (sv) c

any group of five

• Afrikaans: kwintet
• Albanian: kuinteti
• Armenian: կվինտետ (hy) (kvintet)
• Azerbaijani: kvintet
• Basque: boskotea
• Belarusian: квінтэт (kvintet)
• Bulgarian: квинтет (kvintet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五重奏 (zh) (wǔchóngzòu)

• Corsican: quintettu
• Czech: kvintet (cs)
• Danish: kvintet (da)
• Dhivehi: ކްއިންޓެޓް (k̊in̊ṭeṭ)
• Dogri: क्विंटेंट (kviṇṭẽṭ)
• Dutch: vijftal (nl) n
• Esperanto: kvinopo, quinteto (eo)
• Estonian: kvintett
• Finnish: viisikko (fi)
• French: quintette (fr)
• Galician: quinteto (gl)
• Georgian: კვინტეტი (ḳvinṭeṭi)
• German: Quintett (de) n
• Greek: κουιντέτο (el) (kouintéto)
• Hindi: पंचक (hi) (pañcak)
• Hungarian: ötös (hu), kvintett (hu)
• Icelandic: kvintett (is)
• Indonesian: kwintet
• Italian: quintetto (it) m
• Japanese: クインテット (kuintetto)
• Kannada: ಕ್ವಿಂಟೆಟ್ (kviṇṭeṭ)
• Kazakh: квинтет (kvintet)
• Khmer: ឃ្វីនតេត (khviinteet)
• Konkani: क्विंटेट (kviṇṭeṭ)
• Korean: 오중주 (ko) (ojungju), 오창 (ochang), 퀸텟 (kwintet)
• Kyrgyz: квинтет (kvintet)
• Latvian: kvintets
• Lithuanian: kvintetas
• Luxembourgish: quintett
• Macedonian: квинтет (kvintet)
• Maithili: क्विंटेट (kviṇṭēṭ)
• Malay: kuintet
• Malayalam: ക്വിന്ററ്റ് (kvinṟaṟṟŭ)
• Maori: tokorima
• Marathi: पंचक (pañcak)
• Mongolian: квинтет (kvintet)
• Nepali: पंचक (pañcak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvintett m

  Nynorsk: kvintett m

• Odia: କ୍ୱିଣ୍ଟେଟ୍ (kwiṇṭeṭ)
• Polish: kwintet (pl)
• Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
• Romanian: cvintet (ro)
• Russian: квинте́т (ru) m (kvintét), пятёрка (ru) f (pjatjórka), (collective) пя́теро (ru) pl (pjátero)
• Rwanda-Rundi: kwintet
• Sanskrit: क्विन्टेट् (kvinṭeṭ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: квинтет

  Roman: kvintet (sh)

• Slovak: kvinteto
• Slovene: kvinteta
• Spanish: quinteto (es) m
• Sundanese: kwintet, quintét
• Swedish: kvintett (sv)
• Tajik: квинтет (kvintet)
• Tatar: квинтет (kwintet)
• Telugu: క్విన్టెట్ (kvinṭeṭ)
• Thai: ควินเต็ต (khwin tĕt)
• Tigrinya: ኲንተት (kʷintät)
• Turkish: beşlik (tr)
• Turkmen: kwintet
• Ukrainian: квінтет (kvintet)
• Uyghur: كۇيىنت (kuyint)
• Uzbek: kvintet (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngũ tấu
• Welsh: pumawd
• West Frisian: kwintet
• Yiddish: קווינטעט (kvintet)
• Zulu: i-quintet

See also

• duo
• trio or triplet
• quartet
• sextet
• septet
• octet
• nonet
• chamber ensemble
• chamber orchestra
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