English

Noun

Constantia ‎(plural Constantias)

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

Latin

Noun

cōnstantia f ‎(genitive cōnstantiae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• (constancy): firmitās, firmitūdō, pondus

Related terms

• cōnstō

Descendants

• French: constance
• Spanish: constancia

References

• constantia in Charlton T. Lewis and 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “constantia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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