Vincent

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English

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Etymology

From French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius, from vincēns (“conquering”), from the verb vincō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪnsənt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Hyphenation: Vin‧cent

Proper noun

Vincent (countable and uncountable, plural Vincents)

  1. (countable) A male given name from Latin.
    • 1971, Don McLean, "Vincent" (song):
      Starry starry night.
      Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
      Swirling clouds in violet haze
      Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
    • 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 203:
      Even their names hinted at a childishness they would never grow out of. When Vincent himself was grown-up, he wondered if this was why they had given their unlooked-for son such a mature name - although later still Vincent suspected that he might have been named for the Vincent Rapide motorbike. As with most things to do with Billy and Georgie, it was too late to ask.
  2. (countable) A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A city in Shelby County, St. Clair County and Talladega County, Alabama.
    2. A census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California.
    3. A minor city in Webster County, Iowa.
    4. A ghost town in Osborne County, Kansas.
    5. An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky.
    6. A census-designated place in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio.
  4. A settlement in Aquin commune, Sud department, Haiti.
  5. A former commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, now part of Vincent-Froideville commune.
  6. A suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
  7. The City of Vincent, a local government area in Perth, Western Australia .

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Arabic: فينسنت (fīnsint)
  • → Greek: Βίνσεντ (Vínsent)

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin Vincentius, from vincens.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vincent m

  1. a male given name, Vincent, from Latin, equivalent to English Vincent
  2. a surname, Vincent, originating as a patronymic

Derived terms

Descendants

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Audio (Austria)(file)
  • Hyphenation: Vin‧cent

Proper noun

Vincent

  1. a male given name, Vincent, from Latin, a French variant of Vinzenz, equivalent to English Vincent

Slovak

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vincent m anim (genitive singular Vincenta, nominative plural Vincentovia, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Vincent
singular plural
nominative Vincent Vincentovia
genitive Vincenta Vincentov
dative Vincentovi Vincentom
accusative Vincenta Vincentov
locative Vincentovi Vincentoch
instrumental Vincentom Vincentmi

Further reading

  • “Vincent”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Etymology

From French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vincent c (genitive Vincents)

  1. a male given name, Vincent, from Latin, equivalent to English Vincent
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