Anthony
WordNet
noun
(1) United States suffragist (1820-1906)
(2) Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
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Etymology
From , name of a Roman gens (with excrescent -h- probably suggested by the many Greek loan words beginning anth-, e.g., άνθος "flower", άνθρωπος "man"). The Roman clan name is of uncertain etymology, but is not Greek or Hebrew; most likely of Etruscan origin.
Proper noun
- , in regular use since the Middle Ages.
Related terms
- pet form: Tony, Ant
- variants: Antonio, Antoine, Anton
- feminine forms: Antonia, Antoinette, Toni, Tonia, Tonya
Quotations
- 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned:
- "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters."
- "That's the Patch part though. How should Anthony look?"
- "You look like Anthony," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."
- 1955 Joseph Heller: Catch-22: Chapter Five:
- She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint Anthony," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint Anthony?" her husband said. "Who's Saint Anthony?"