quintus

Definition of the Latin term quintus in music:

1. fifth (ordinal number)
2. fifth (interval of five degrees)
3. fifth (the note a fifth above the tonic of a scale or the root of a chord)
4. the fifth voice in vocal polyphony
5. generic name for an organ mutation stop sounding a fifth above the note played, sometimes one or more octaves above (equivalent to "Fifth" in English, "Quint" in German, "Quinte" in French, and "Quinta" in Italian)

Latin musical terms related to quintus: