quince

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

• IPA^(key): /kwɪns/
• 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.

• Japan quince
• quince curculio

• Cinque, cinque

From Latin quīndecim.

quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

• quincenu

From Old Portuguese quinze, from Latin quīndecim.

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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.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈkinθe/, [ˈkĩn̟θe]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈkinse/, [ˈkĩnse]

quince

1. fifteen

• cinco
• diez

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