quinqué
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French quinquet.
Pronunciation
Noun
quinqué m (plural quinqués)
- Argand lamp (kind of oil-burning lamp)
Further reading
- “quinqué”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “quinqué” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French quinquet.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e
- IPA(key): /kinˈke/ [kĩŋˈke]
- Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: quin‧qué
Noun
quinqué m (plural quinqués)
- Argand lamp (kind of oil-burning lamp)
- Synonym: lámpara de Argand
Further reading
- quinqué on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
- “quinqué”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024