constantia

See also: Constantia

Contents

LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈstan.ti.a/, [kõːˈstan.ti.a]

NounEdit

cōnstantia f ‎(genitive cōnstantiae); first declension

1. firmness, steadiness, constancy, perseverance
2. agreement, harmony
3. (of character) steadfastness, immovability, constancy

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cōnstantia	cōnstantiae
genitive	cōnstantiae	cōnstantiārum
dative	cōnstantiae	cōnstantiīs
accusative	cōnstantiam	cōnstantiās
ablative	cōnstantiā	cōnstantiīs
vocative	cōnstantia	cōnstantiae

SynonymsEdit

• (constancy): firmitās, firmitūdō, pondus

Related termsEdit

• cōnstō

DescendantsEdit

• French: constance
• Spanish: constancia

ReferencesEdit

• constantia in Charlton T. Lewis & 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, 1883–1887)
• constantia in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], 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
    
• 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