Anthony

A male given name from Latin, in regular use since the Middle Ages.

Proper noun

  1. A male given name from Latin, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
    • "...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....
    • It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony, a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British"...
    • 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...
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
    • The online fundraising site GiveSendGo continues to face criticism over a page that has raised more than $320,000 for Karmelo Anthony, the teen arrested for stabbing fellow 17-year-old student-athlete Austin Metcalf to...
  3. A place in the United States:

    1. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida.

    2. An unincorporated community in Hamilton Township, Delaware County, Indiana.

    3. A city, the county seat of Harper County, Kansas.

    4. An unincorporated community in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

    5. A city in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, bordering onto Anthony, Texas.

    6. A town in El Paso County, Texas, bordering onto Anthony, New Mexico.

Origin

From Latin Antōnius, name of a Roman gens (with excrescent -h- suggested by an unetymological association with Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”)). The Roman clan name is of uncertain etymology, but is not Greek or Hebrew; most likely of Etruscan origin, possibly derived from Ani, the Etruscan god of the sky. Doublet of Antoine.

Forms

Antony

Related

Tony Ant Anto Antu Antony Antonio Antoine Anton Antonia Antoinette Toni Tonia Tonya

Derived

Saint Anthony St. Anthony St Anthony-in-Meneage Susan B. Anthony