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Citations:quintal Jul 27th 2011, 09:14 Created with 1 citation (1882) New page {{citations}} * '''1882''', Abram Smythe Palmer, ''Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions or Words Perverted in Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy'' (G. Bell and Sons), <span class="plainlinks">[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zcACAAAAIAAJ&q=%2Bquintate&dq=%2Bquintate&hl=en&ei=Z9MvTqLtAs-78gO3k4BE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA page 311]</span>, "<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Quintal</span>" *: <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Quintal</span>, a term for an hundred pound weight (Bailey), French and Sp. ''quintal'', It. ''quintale'', have no connexion with Lat. ''quintus'', but are derived from Arab. ''kinṭār'' (''qinṭār'') of the same meaning. This latter word (adds Prof. Skeat) is from Lat. ''centum'' a hundred.

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