properly a comb. form of L. quint-us fifth, but sometimes incorrectly employed in place of QUINQUE-, as in quintiliteral, -partition, -ped. (Cf. QUINT-, and F. quintiforme, -section.)
1674. Jeake, Arith. (1696), 33. Quintipartition, or to divide by 5 may likewise be effected thus.
1839. Pauli, Analecta Hebraica, xxviii. 205. The so-called Quadri- and Quinti-literals are compounds.
1889. H. MacColl, Mr. Stranger’s Sealed Packet, v. 50. All the creatures … were quadrupeds; there were no quintipeds, sexipeds, or anything of that sort.
