Quintus

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | 253 words | Copyright

Quintus ♂ An old Roman given name meaning ‘fifth’. It has been used in the English-speaking world, mainly in the 19th century, for the fifth-born son or a male fifth child in a family (compare Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, and Nona).

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