quentin
/ˈkwɛntɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name from Latin.
name
A female given name from Latin occasionally used.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Quīntīnus