constantia
See also: Constantia
Latin
Etymology
From present-participle stem of cōnstāre (“to stand together”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈstan.ti.a/, [kõːˈs̠t̪än̪t̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈstan.t͡si.a/, [konˈst̪änt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
cōnstantia f (genitive cōnstantiae); first declension
- firmness, steadiness, constancy, perseverance
- agreement, harmony
- (of character) steadfastness, immovability, constancy
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cōnstantia | cōnstantiae |
| Genitive | cōnstantiae | cōnstantiārum |
| Dative | cōnstantiae | cōnstantiīs |
| Accusative | cōnstantiam | cōnstantiās |
| Ablative | cōnstantiā | cōnstantiīs |
| Vocative | cōnstantia | cōnstantiae |
Synonyms
- (constancy): firmitās, firmitūdō, pondus
Related terms
- cōnstō
Descendants
- Catalan: constància
- → English: constancy
- French: constance
- Galician: constancia
- Italian: costanza
- Portuguese: constância
- Romanian: constanță
- Spanish: constancia
References
- “constantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “constantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- constantia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- constantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- logical consistency: perpetuitas et constantia (Tusc. 5. 10. 31)
- consistency: constantia (opp. inconstantia) (Tusc. 5. 11. 32)
- to be calm, self-possessed: constantiam servare
- logical consistency: perpetuitas et constantia (Tusc. 5. 10. 31)
- “constantia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “constantia”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “constantia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “constantia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press