Given name
Vincentius
“conquering”
Vincentius is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Latin.
Original LatinVincentzus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Vincentius goes back to a word meaning “conquering.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin -n-, built from Latin vincēns (“conquering”) + -ius.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Vincentius’s family of names
In Latin usage, Vincentius has a later derivative in Vincent. In Latin usage, Vincentius has a related form in Vincentzus. Vincentius has a related form in Vincent.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Vincentius has relatives in 17 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Vincentius comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 23
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Vicenteborrowing · Spanish, Portuguese
- Vincenzoequivalent
- Vinceequivalent
- Vincenteequivalent
- Bencederivative · Hungarian
- Vinzentequivalent
- Vinchenzoderivative · English
- Vicentborrowing · Catalan
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- Vincasequivalent
- Vincencequivalent
- Vinzenzequivalent
- ВикентийRussian
- Vikentijusderivative · Lithuanian
- Bizentederivative · Basque
- Վիգէնderivative · Classical Armenian
- Vinh Sơnderivative · Vietnamese
- WincentyPolish
- Bikendiborrowing · Basque
- Bingenderivative · Basque
- Vincenzderivative · German
- Uinseannderivative · Irish
- Vicençderivative · Catalan
- Vincentasderivative · Lithuanian
People named Vincentius
- Vincent of Saragossasaint and martyr300–304
- Vincent of Lérins5th-century saint and theologian500–445
- Vincentius Sutikno WisaksonoIndonesian bishop (1953–2023)
- Vincentius Sensi Potokota21st-century Indonesian Catholic archbishop1951–2023
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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