Constantine
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin Cōnstantīnus, the name of Roman emperors, Latin cōnstāns (“constant, steadfast”). Doublet of Konstadinos.
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Constantine
- 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.
- A city and province of Algeria.
- A village and civil parish south-west of Falmouth, Cornwall, England, named after Saint Constantine (OS grid ref SW7329).
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male given name
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city in Algeria
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See also[edit]
- Constantina (Latin feminine form)
References[edit]
- ^ Constantine in Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., retrieved 27 February 2018.
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