Vincent

See also: vincent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪnsənt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• 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

• Saint Vincent
• Saint-Vincent
• St. Vincent
• St.-Vincent
• St-Vincent
• St Vincent
• Vincentian
• Vincent's angina
• Vincent's infection
• Vincent's organism
• Vincent's stomatitis
• Vincent's ulcer

 

Related terms

• pet forms: Vince, Vinnie

Descendants

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

Translations

male given name

• Armenian: Վինսենթ (Vinsentʻ), Վիգեն (Vigen)
• Bengali: ভিনসেন্ট (bhinośenṭo)
• Breton: Visant (br) m
• Carpathian Rusyn: Ві́нцент m (Víncent)
• Catalan: Vicent (ca), Vicenç (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文森特 (Wénsēntè)

• Czech: Vincenc (cs) m
• Danish: Vincent
• Dutch: Vincent (nl)
• Franco-Provençal: Vincent, Veuncein
• French: Vincent (fr)
• German: Vinzenz, Vincent (de)
• Greek: Βικέντιος (el) (Vikéntios)
• Hungarian: Vince (hu), Bence (hu)
• Irish: Uinseann m
• Italian: Vincenzo (it)
• Latin: Vincentius
• Latvian: Vincents
• Ligurian: Viçenso
• Lithuanian: Vincentas (lt), Vincas (lt)
• Norman: Vîncent (Jersey)
• Occitan: Vincenç m, Vincent m
• Polish: Wincenty (pl)
• Portuguese: Vicente (pt)
• Romanian: Vincențiu
• Russian: Винсент (ru) (Vinsent), Викентий (ru) (Vikentiy) (chiefly in Russian Orthodox Chirstianity)
• Slovene: Vincenc, Vinko (sl)
• Spanish: Vicente (es)
• Swedish: Vincent (sv)
• Ukrainian: Вінсент (Vinsent)
• Vietnamese: Vinh Sơn, Vinhsơn
• West Frisian: Finsint
• Yiddish: ווינסענט (vinsent)

French

Etymology

From Latin Vincentius, from vincens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛ̃.sɑ̃/

• Audio

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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

• Saint-Vincent
• St Vincent
• St-Vincent
• St. Vincent
• St.-Vincent

 

Descendants

• → English: Vincent
• → German: Vincent
  • → Slovak: Vincent
• → Greek: Βενσάν (Vensán)
• → Norman: Vîncent
• → Swedish: Vincent
• Vietnamese: Vinhsơn, Vinh Sơn
• → Chinese: → 樊尚 (Fánshàng) (transliteration)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French Vincent, from Latin Vincentius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪntsɛnt]

• Audio (Austria)

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• 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈvint͡sent]

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

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Proper noun

Vincent c (genitive Vincents)

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