cointe

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cointe

1. (AB language; Gloucestershire , Norfolk ) alternative form of queynte

• coynte , cuente , cuinte , kointe , quaint , quainte , quaynt , queint , queinte , quente , quint , quointe

From Latin cognitus .

cointe m (feminine cointe)

1. clever, intelligent

• → Italian: conto (etym. 3 and partly 4)
• → Middle English: queynte
  • English: quaint
  • Middle Scots: quent
    • Scots: whint (Orkney)
  • → Middle Cornish: coynt
    • Cornish: koynt

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), "cointe", in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle [...], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• "cointe", in Anglo-Norman Dictionary , 2nd edition, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: Aberystwyth University, 2001–2026.

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