quiñentos

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Galician

Galician numbers (edit)
,  ←  400 500 600  → 
50, ,
    Cardinal (standard): cincocentos, quiñentos
    Cardinal (reintegrationist): quinhentos
    Ordinal (standard): quinxentésimo
    Ordinal (reintegrationist): qüingentésimo, quingentésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 500º
    Fractional (standard): quinxentésimo
    Fractional (reintegrationist): qüingentésimo, quingentésimo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinnentos, quinentos, from Latin quīngentōs, accusative masculine plural of quīngentī. Compare Portuguese quinhentos, Spanish quinientos.

Numeral

quiñentos m (feminine quiñentas)

  1. five hundred; 500
    Synonym: cincocentos

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