Quentin
proper nouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈkwɛntɪn//
A male given name from Latin.
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.
The question is inescapable following the killing in Lyon of nationalist student Quentin Deranque by suspected far-left militants.
- 2
A female given name from Latin occasionally used.
- 3
A surname.
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.