Constantia

Learned borrowing from Latin Cōnstantia. Doublet of Constance.

Constantia (countable and uncountable, plural Constantias)

1. A kind of wine, either white or red, from Constantia in Cape Colony.

Constantia

1. A female given name from Latin, of rare usage.
   • 1938 October 16, “Bowditch-Pleasants”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Miss Constantia Elizabeth Pleasants, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth W. Pleasants of Wynnewood and of Dr. Henry Pleasants of West Chester, was married this afternoon to Nathaniel Bowditch, son of Mrs. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and the late Dr. Bowditch.

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   • 1940 May 10, “Hommann--Calkins”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Mrs. Smith Hommann of this place has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Constantia H. Hommann, to Gary Nathan Calkins Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Calkins of Scarsdale and Wood’s Hole, Mass.

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   • 2004 March 7, Matthew Mosk, “WSSC Contract to Review Diversity Plagued by Allegations of Patronage”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 December 2022:

     And his wife, Constantia B. Latham, is one of Duncan’s four special assistants, for which she is paid $109,000 a year.

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Feminine form of Cōnstantius or, or partly, nominalization of cōnstantia.

• Cōnstantia:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈstan.ti.a]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈstan.t͡si.a]
• Cōnstantiā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈstan.ti.aː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈstan.t͡si.a]

Cōnstantia f sg (genitive Cōnstantiae); first declension

1. a feminine praenomen

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Mandarin: 康斯坦絲 / 康斯坦丝 (Kāngsītǎnsī)
• English: Constance
• French: Constance
• German: Konstanze
• Alemannic German: Konschdanz
• Greek: Κωνσταντία (Konstantía)
• Italian: Costanza
• Macedonian: Костади́нка (Kostadínka)
• Polish: Konstancja
• Portuguese: Constância
• Sicilian: Custanza
• Venetan: Costansa