Quentin
pronunciation
How to pronounce Quentin in British English:
UK ['kwentin]
How to pronounce Quentin in American English:
US
Word Origin
- Quentin
- masc. proper name, from French, from Latin Quin(c)tianus, from quintus "the fifth." Roman children in large families often were named for their birth order (compare Sextius; also see Octavian). "[P]opular in France from the cult of St Quentin of Amiens, and brought to England by the Normans" ["Dictionary of English Surnames"], but the popular English form as a surname was Quinton.
Example
- 1. Cool birthday cake inspired by quentin tarantino 's kill bill movie .
- 2. Is that the only thing you wanna ask her , quentin ?
- 3. Here 's an extreme example from my visit to the san quentin prison .
- 4. Additional reporting by quentin peel in munich and hugh carnegy in paris .
- 5. Star rover was a london novel deploring conditions at san quentin .