Antony

See also: antony

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæntəni/

Proper noun

Antony

1. A male given name from Latin, a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Demetrius. Is Caesar with Antonius priz'd so slight?
     Philo. Sir, sometimes, when he's not Antony,
     He comes too short of that great property
     Which still should go with Antony.

2. A civil parish in east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4054).
   1. A village in the civil parish, east Cornwall, England.
4. A commune of Hauts-de-Seine department, France.

Related terms

• Tony

Translations

male given name — see Anthony

parish in Cornwall

• Cornish: Pluw Anton, Pluwanton

village in Cornwall

• Cornish: Anton

Anagrams

• tannoy

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Anthony, Antoni

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Antony, from Latin Antōnius. Doublet of Antônio and Antão.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.to.ni/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.tu.ni/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃toni
• Hyphenation: An‧to‧ny

Proper noun

Antony m

1. a male given name from English

Statistics

• According to the 2022 Brazilian census, the given name Antony belongs to 82,937 individuals in Brazil.