Quintan

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quintan \Quin"tan\, a. [L. quintanus, fr. quintus fifth, quinque
     five. See {Five}.]
     Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring
     every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
     -- n. (Med.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth
     day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission


     lasts three days.
     [1913 Webster]