2011, Thomas Penn,Winter King, Penguin, published2012, page204:
In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.
Historically, the value varied with local values of pounds by time, location, and substance. At the time of metricization, the French quintal was 49.951 kg, the Portuguese quintal was 58.75 kg, the Spanish quintal was 46.014 kg, and the Milanese quintal was 32.67 kg. The present metric quintal is not officially recognized as part of the metric system.
2002, Kearsy Annette Cormier,Grammaticization of Indexic Signs: How American Sign Language Expresses Numerosity, page69:
Furthermore, if the number-incorporated pronouns are analyzed as grammatically marked for number, distinct grammatical categories for trial, quadral andquintal must be posited.
2014, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi,A Descriptive Grammar of Morphosyntactic Constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL), page198:
In UgSL, we find a complete set of forms for dual, trial, quadral andquintal in several paradigmatic contrasts.
2023, Raquel Veiga Busto,Person and Number: An Empirical Study of Catalan Sign Language Pronouns, page164:
All in all, this suggests that in LSC the differences observed in the motion taken by exact number pronouns is not grounded in a fundamental distinction between the dual vs. the trial, the quadral and thequintal.
(grammar) Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to thequintal grammatical number.
1995, John W. M. Verhaar,Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin: An Experiment in Corpus Linguistics, page20:
What Table 4 does not show is the possibility of even "quadral" and "quintal" forms, like yufopela 'you four', 'the four of you', yufaipela 'you five', 'the five of you'.
2014, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi,A Descriptive Grammar of Morphosyntactic Constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL), page198:
In sign languages, on the other hand, trial, quadral andquintal forms such as found in UgSL are not uncommon.
2023, Raquel Veiga Busto,Person and Number: An Empirical Study of Catalan Sign Language Pronouns, page102:
Moreover, trial, quadral andquintal forms are given an identical status as number values in the pronominal domain.
It has been contested whether this grammatical phenomenon exists in human languages. If it does, it is almost entirely confined to sign languages. See alsoGrammatical number.
Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000),Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;38)[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.:Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page286
