Quintus

See also: quintus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Quīntus (“masculine praenomen”), from quīntus (“fifth”).

Proper noun

Quintus (plural Quintuses or Quinti)

1. A male given name from Latin
   • 1894, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Louis Claude Purser, “Part VII. Letters from Cicero’s Return to Italy after the Battle of Pharsalia to the Death of Tullia.”, in The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero, […] (Dublin University Press Series), volume IV, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co. […]; London: Longmans, Green, & Co., […], →OCLC, footnote 1, pages 239 and 256:

     Q. Q.] ‘the two Quinti.’ Quintus, the brother of Cicero, and his son Quintus. […] utinam mederi] ‘would that my nearest and dearest had chosen to relieve my sufferings, rather than to aggravate them’; he refers to the Quinti and Terentia.

   • 1937 September 8, Quintus Quiz [pseudonym], “Life Owes You Nothing”, in Charles Clayton Morrison, editor, The Christian Century, volume LIV, number 36, Chicago, Ill.: Christian Century Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1097, column 1:

     “Quintus, I want a word with you,” said the other Quintus, for there are two Quinti.

   • 1988, Suzanne Dixon, “The Roman Mother and the Adolescent or Adult Son”, in The Roman Mother, Beckenham, Greater London; Sydney, N.S.W.: Croom Helm, →ISBN, page 190:

     Cicero’s preoccupation with the slander spread by the two Quinti about him at a dangerous time would in any case have led him to focus less on everyday family ructions.

   • 2002, Colleen McCullough, “The March of Cato’s Ten Thousand […]”, in The October Horse (Masters of Rome; 6), London: Century, →ISBN, section 1, page 127:

     Neither of the Quintuses moved, too enthralled to care what Gnaeus Pompey did to the family tyrant.

2. A male surname from Latin

Latin

Alternative forms

• Q., Qu., Quīnctus

Etymology

From quīntus (“fifth”), itself from quīnque (“five”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiːn.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷin̪.t̪us]

Proper noun

Quīntus m (genitive Quīntī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen, originally used for a fifth-born son (not counting daughters).

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Quīntus	Quīntī
genitive	Quīntī	Quīntōrum
dative	Quīntō	Quīntīs
accusative	Quīntum	Quīntōs
ablative	Quīntō	Quīntīs
vocative	Quīnte	Quīntī

Derived terms

• Quīnctiānus
• Quīnctilius
• Quīnta
• Quīntiānus
• Quīntiliānus
• Quīntilis
• Quīntillus
• Quīntiniānus
• Quīntīnus
• Quīntīpor
• Quīntius

Descendants

• Corsican: Quintu
• Dutch: Kwint, Kwinten, Quint, Quinten
• English: Quint
• French: Quint, Quentin
• Ancient Greek: Κόϊντος (Kóïntos), Κύϊντος (Kúïntos), Κούϊντος (Koúïntos), Κύειντος (Kúeintos), Κύντος (Kúntos)
• Greek: Κόιντος (Kóintos), Κοΐντας (Koḯntas)
• Italian: Quinto
• Polish: Kwintus
• Portuguese: Quinto
• Russian: Квинт (Kvint)
• Serbo-Croatian: Kvint
• Slovene: Kvint
• Spanish: Quinto
• Swedish: Qvintus, Quintus

See also

• Decimus
• Octāviānus
• Octāvus
• Septimus
• Sextus

References

• “Quintus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Quintus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.