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quot homines tot sententiae [quot homines tot sententiae 词源字典]: "‘There are as many opinions as there are men’: expressing the fact that there is considerable diversity of opinion, and the difficulty of bringing about agreement", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in Richard Taverner (?1505–1575), translator and evangelical reformer. From classical Latin quot hominēs tot sententiae there are as many opinions as there are men from quot how many + hominēs, plural of homō man + tot so many + sententiae, plural of sententia.[quot homines tot sententiae etymology, quot homines tot sententiae origin, 英语词源]
quinquangular: "Having five angles or corners; pentagonal", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in William Bedwell (bap. 1563, d. 1632), Arabist and mathematician. From classical Latin quīnque five + angular. Compare post-classical Latin quinquangularis, French quinquangulaire.
quadruplane: " Mathematics . A structure consisting of four rigid plane pieces, each in the form of a right-angled V, hinged end to end to form a closed chain", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897), mathematician. From quadru- + plane.
quinqueliteral: "(Of a root) containing five consonants", Late 18th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808), chemist and physician.
quercitrin: "A pale yellow crystalline glycoside obtained from quercitron bark, which yields quercetin and rhamnose on hydrolysis and is used as a dye", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Encyclopaedia Britannica. From French quercitrin, quercitrine from quercitr- (in quercitron) + -in.
quadragenarian: "A person who is between 40 and 49 years old", Mid 19th century: from late Latin quadragenarius (based on Latin quadraginta 'forty') + -an.
Quinquagesima: "The Sunday before the beginning of Lent", Medieval Latin, feminine of Latin quinquagesimus 'fiftieth', on the pattern of Quadragesima (because it is fifty days before Easter).
quintary: "Originally; †a multiple of five ( obsolete ). Later: something of a fifth level or rank; compare quaternary. rare", Early 18th cent. As noun alteration of quinary, after classical Latin quīntus fifth. As adjective alteration of quinary, after classical Latin quīntus.
quinquagesimal: "Designating, belonging to, or relating to a set of fifty things (especially days); based on division into fifty parts", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Daniel Cawdrey (d. 1664), Church of England clergyman and ejected minister. From post-classical Latin quinquagesimus fiftieth + -al.
quartan: "Denoting a mild form of malaria causing a fever that recurs every third day", Late Middle English: from Latin (febris) quartana, based on Latin quartus 'fourth' (because, by inclusive reckoning, the fever recurs every fourth day).
quadrisyllable: "A word of four syllables", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Blount (1618–1679), antiquary and lexicographer. From quadri- + syllable.
quercitannic acid: "A tannin found in oak bark", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in William Gregory (1803–1858), chemist and psychic investigator.
quercitron: "The inner bark of the American black oak, Quercus velutina, used as a source of the yellow dye quercitrin and in tanning (more fully quercitron bark)", Late 18th cent.; earliest use found in Statute 32 George III. Blend of quercine and citron adjective.
quinquefid: "Especially of a leaf, calyx, etc.: divided in five sections to about halfway; five-cleft", Early 18th cent.; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. From post-classical Latin quinquifidus divided into five, (of a leaf) divided into five sections from classical Latin quīnque- + -fīdus.
quantitate: "Determine the quantity or extent of (something in numerical terms); quantify", 1960s: from quantity + -ate³.
quien sabe: "Originally and frequently in Spanish-speaking contexts: ‘Who knows?’, ‘who can tell?’", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Robert Fitzroy (1805–1865), hydrographer and meteorologist. From Spanish quién sabe who knows from quién (interrogative pronoun) who + sabe, third person singular present indicative of saber to know.
queest: "The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus. Formerly also †queest-dove", Late Middle English; earliest use found in Palladius' De Re Rustica. Apparently a variant of cushat, with elision of the vowel of the second syllable.
quinquagenarian: "A person who is between 50 and 59 years old", Early 19th century: from Latin quinquagenarius (based on quinquaginti 'fifty') + -an.
quinquelateral: "Having five sides", Early 18th century; earliest use found in Robert Fleming (1630–1694), Presbyterian minister in the Netherlands.