cointe

Old French

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin cognitus.

Adjective

cointe m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cointe)

clever; intelligent

Descendants

→ Middle English: queynte, cwointe, cuinte, cwuinte; quoynte, queinte, quaynt, quaynte, quoynt, queint, coynte, queynt, qwaynte, quaint
- English: quaint
- Scots: quent (obsolete)

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cointe)

cointe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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