Constantine

English

Etymology

From Latin Cōnstantīnus, the name of Roman emperors, Latin cōnstāns (“constant, steadfast”). Doublet of Konstadinos.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒns.tənˌtaɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑns.tənˌtiːn/

Proper noun

Constantine

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Helen, the mother of great Constantine
     Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters were like thee.

2. A city and province of Algeria.
3. A village and civil parish south-west of Falmouth, Cornwall, England, named after Saint Constantine (OS grid ref SW7329).

Synonyms

• (city in Algeria): Qacentina

Derived terms

• Thorpe Constantine

Related terms

• Constance

Translations

male given name

• Albanian: Konstandín, Kostandín, Konstantín, Kostantín
• Arabic: قُسْطَنْطِين m (qusṭanṭīn)
• Armenian: Կոստանդին (Kostandin)
• Belarusian: Канстанці́н (Kanstancín)
• Bulgarian: Константи́н m (Konstantín)
• Catalan: Constantí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 康斯坦丁 (Kāngsītǎndīng)

• Czech: Konstantin
• Danish: Konstantin
• Dutch: Constantijn (nl) m, Tijn (nl)
• Esperanto: Konstantino
• Finnish: Konsta (fi), Kosti (fi), (emperors) Konstantinus
• French: Constantin (fr)
• Galician: Constantino (gl)
• German: Konstantin (de)
• Gothic: 𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌿𐍃 (kustanteinus)
• Greek: Κωνσταντίνος (el) (Konstantínos)
• Hungarian: Szilárd (hu)
• Irish: Constaintín m
• Italian: Costantino (it)
• Japanese: コンスタンティノス (Konsutantinosu)
• Korean: 콘스탄티누스 (Konseutantinuseu)
• Latin: Constantinus
• Latvian: Konstantīns m
• Lithuanian: Konstantinas (lt)
• Macedonian: Константин (Konstantin), Костадин (mk) (Kostadin)
• Norwegian: Konstantin
• Polish: Konstanty (pl) m, Konstantyn (pl) m
• Portuguese: Constantino (pt)
• Romanian: Costin
• Russian: Константи́н (ru) (Konstantín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Константин

  Roman: Konstantin

• Slovak: Konštantín
• Slovene: Konstantin
• Spanish: Constantino (es)
• Swedish: Konstantin
• Turkish: Konstantin
• Vietnamese: Constantinô, Công Tăng
• Welsh: Cystennin

city in Algeria

• Arabic: قُسَنْطِينَة (qusanṭīna)

  Hijazi Arabic: قُسَنْطِينَة f (gusanṭīna)

• French: Constantine (fr)
• Japanese: コンスタンティノ (Konsutantin)
• Kabyle: ⵇⵙⴻⵏⵟⵉⵏⴰ (kasantina)
• Spanish: Constantina (es)

See also

• Constantina (Latin feminine form)