quant

• IPA^(key): /kwɒnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnt

Shortening.

quant (plural quants)

1. (finance) A quantitative analyst.
   • 2014 January 30, Simon Roberts Was Here (The Crazy Ones), episode 15:

     Judy Mills: Oh, and I was very excited to hear about your agency's new emphasis on hard numbers and data.
     Simon: Excuse me?
     Judy Mills: Yeah, I heard you hired a quant.

2. Short for quantity.
3. Short for quantifier.

quant (not comparable)

1. Short for quantifiable.
2. Short for quantitative.

• quant fund

Uncertain. A borrowing from Latin contus (“long pole”) has been suggested, but the -a- is problematic.

quant (plural quants)

1. A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
2. A vertical shaft used to drive a millstone.

• quant pole

quant (third-person singular simple present quants, present participle quanting, simple past and past participle quanted)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To propel using a quant.

• quanter

• quant suff

• nuqta

Inherited from Old Catalan quant, from Latin quantus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkwan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkwant]
• Homophone: quan (Central)

quant (feminine quanta, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantes)

1. (interrogative) how many; how much
2. (with the definite article) quite a bit; quite a few (considerably)
   • 2019 August 12, Josep Maria Ganyet, “L’ordinador i la calma”, in La Vanguardia‎:

     Per entendre de què estem parlant hem de fer una passa enrere... d’uns quants milions d’anys.

     To understand what we're talking about, we have to take a step back... of quite a few million years.

• “quant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “quant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “quant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin quantum.

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃/

quant

1. Only used in quant à

• “quant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin quantus.

quant m (feminine singular quante, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantes)

1. how many; how much
   • 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 6, line 8:

     Quant ils orent chevauchier ne sçay quantes iournees

     When they had ridden for I don't know how many days

     (please note, the first word 'quant' corresponds to etymology 2 below)

• quant on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

From Old French quant, from Latin quando, see quand.

quant

1. Alternative form of quand

From Old Occitan can, from Latin quantus.

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quant m (feminine singular quanta, masculine plural quants, feminine plural quantas)

1. (interrogative) how many; how much

quant

1. (interrogative) how many; how much

• qant, qn̈t

From Latin quandō.

quant

1. when

quant

1. (interrogative) when

• Middle French: quand, quant
  • French: quand