Meaning of Quintus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male given name from Latin
2. The fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.
3. A male surname from Latin

Equivalents

Examples

“Q. Q.] ‘the two Quinti.’ Quintus, the brother of Cicero, and his son Quintus. […] utinam mederi] ‘would that my nearest and dearest had chosen to relieve my sufferings, rather than to aggravate them’; he refers to the Quinti and Terentia.”

““Quintus, I want a word with you,” said the other Quintus, for there are two Quinti.”

“Cicero’s preoccupation with the slander spread by the two Quinti about him at a dangerous time would in any case have led him to focus less on everyday family ructions.”

“Neither of the Quintuses moved, too enthralled to care what Gnaeus Pompey did to the family tyrant.”

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