quintarian

Whether they're competing in a basketball tournament or a spelling bee, when a contender wins a championship title five times, they become a quintarian. High five!

In the upper echelons of competition, it's not that unusual for the victor to become a back-to-back champion or even to win a three-peat. But earning a fifth national title is rare, and when Etiwanda High School achieved the unprecedented feat of becoming Vocabulary Bowl Champion in 2021 for the fifth straight season, there were simply no words to describe this win. The experts huddled, and a new word was added to the dictionary: quintarian. Quintarian is a mashup of the Latin quintus, meaning "fifth," and the suffix -arian, which forms nouns and adjectives concerned with a specific thing, in this case five championship wins.

Definitions of quintarian

1. noun

   a person, school, or team that wins a championship five times
   “As quintarians, the young scholars from Etiwanda High achieved unprecedented success in the national word learning competition, beating thousands of other schools from across North America.”
2. adjective

   holding five championship titles
   “Quintarian champion Etiwanda High School holds multiple records, including most words mastered in a Vocabulary Bowl season and most months at the top of the leaderboard.”