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noun, feminine

quinta

/ˈkinta/

noun, feminine/ˈkinta/plural: quintas

villa; country home; call-up (to the army); group of people who are the same age; cohort; straight flush (in some games)

Somos todos de la misma quintaWe are all the same age.

From Latin quintana – cognate to English quintain (“a street between the fifth and sixth maniples of a Roman military camp, where warlike exercises took place”) –, the feminine of quintanus (“fifth-ranking”), from quintus (“fifth”), q.v.