Quentin
/ˈkwɛntɪn/ name
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A male given name from Latin.
"Quentin Barry had always wished that he had been called Sean or Brian. It was hard to be called Quentin at a Christian Brothers school in the 1970s. But that was the name they had wanted, his beautiful mother Sara Barry had wanted, she who had always lived in a dream world far more elegant that the one she really lived in."
- 2 A female given name from Latin occasionally used.
Example
More examples"A struggling actor I know finally hit pay dirt when he was cast in the new Quentin Tarantino film."
Etymology
From Old French. The name of a third century French martyr, from Latin Quīntīnus, a derivative of the Roman praenomen Quīntus, from quīntus (“fifth”). It was brought to England by the Normans, but never became particularly popular. Compare Quinton.