constantia

See also: Constantia

Latin

Etymology

From present-participle stem of cōnstāre (“to stand together”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈstan.ti.a/, [kõːˈs̠t̪än̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈstan.t͡si.a/, [konˈst̪änt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

cōnstantia f (genitive cōnstantiae); first declension

1. firmness, steadiness, constancy, perseverance
2. agreement, harmony
3. (of character) steadfastness, immovability
4. consistent

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnstantia	cōnstantiae
Genitive	cōnstantiae	cōnstantiārum
Dative	cōnstantiae	cōnstantiīs
Accusative	cōnstantiam	cōnstantiās
Ablative	cōnstantiā	cōnstantiīs
Vocative	cōnstantia	cōnstantiae

Synonyms

• (constancy): firmitās, firmitūdō, pondus

Related terms

• cōnstō

Descendants

• Catalan: constància
• → English: constancy
• French: constance
• Galician: constancia
• Italian: costanza
• Portuguese: constância
• Romanian: constanță
• Spanish: constancia

References

• “constantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “constantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• constantia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• constantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • logical consistency: perpetuitas et constantia (Tusc. 5. 10. 31)
    
  • consistency: constantia (opp. inconstantia) (Tusc. 5. 11. 32)
    
  • to be calm, self-possessed: constantiam servare
    
• “constantia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “constantia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “constantia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “constantia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press