Quentin

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English

Etymology

From Old French. The name of a third century French martyr, from Latin Quīntīnus, a derivative of the Roman praenomen Quīntus, from quīntus (“fifth”). It was brought to England by the Normans, but never became particularly popular.

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Quentin

  1. A male given name from Latin.
    • 2003, Maeve Binchy, Quentins, Orion, →ISBN, page 79:
      Quentin Barry had always wished that he had been called Sean or Brian. It was hard to be called Quentin at a Christian Brothers school in the 1970s. But that was the name they had wanted, his beautiful mother Sara Barry had wanted, she who had always lived in a dream world far more elegant that the one she really lived in.
  2. A female given name from Latin occasionally used.

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French

Etymology

From Latin Quīntīnus.

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Quentin m

  1. a male given name from Latin; recently popular

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