quince

From Middle English quince, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).

• IPA^(key): /kwɪns/

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• Rhymes: -ɪns

quince (plural quinces)

1. The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
2. The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
3. A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.

   quince:  

• fruit

• Japan quince
• quince curculio

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːnseɪ/, /ˈkɪnseɪ/

quince (plural quinces)

1. (informal) Short for quinceañera.

   quince dress

• Cinque, cinque

From Latin quīndecim.

quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

• quincenu

From Old Portuguese quinze, from Latin quīndecim.

• IPA^(key): /kinθɪ/

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quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

quince

1. Alternative form of quynce (“quince”)

• quinze (obsolete)

From Old Spanish quinze, quindze, from Latin quīndecim.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈkinθe/ [ˈkĩn̟.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈkinse/ [ˈkĩn.se]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -inθe
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -inse
• Syllabification: quin‧ce

quince

1. fifteen

• cinco
• diez

• → Cebuano: kinse
• → Tagalog: kinse

• “quince”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014