quantia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [kwənˈti.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [kwanˈti.a]

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Noun

quantia f (plural quanties)

1. quantity, amount

   Synonym: quantitat

Further reading

• “quantia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “quantia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “quantia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “quantia”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Old Spanish

Etymology

From quanto (“how much”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʷanˈtia/

Noun

quantia f (plural quantias)

1. amount, sum
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 2r:

     Et el tirar que eſta faz, es ſegũd la quantia della ala del fierro que tira […]

     And the pull that it has depends on the amount of it [compared] to the iron it is pulling. […]

Synonyms

• quantidat

Descendants

• Spanish: cuantía

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kwɐ̃ˈti.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: quan‧ti‧a

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷos?

Proto-Indo-European *-onts?

Proto-Indo-European *kʷoider.?

Proto-Italic *kʷāntos

Latin quantus

Old Galician-Portuguese quanto

Portuguese quanto

Portuguese -ia

Portuguese quantia

From quanto + -ia.

Noun

quantia f (plural quantias)

1. sum (portion of money)
2. amount

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Quantie

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

quantia

1. inflection of quantiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “quantia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “quantia”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “quantia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026