Anthony

• Antony

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæntəni/, /ˈænθəni/

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Anthony

1. A male given name from Latin, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
   • 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):

     "...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. How should Anthony look?" "You look like Anthony," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."

   • 1952, Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English, Random House, page 245:

     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" Christian names, like Stephen, Peter, Michael, etc., in this country.

   • 1955, Joseph Heller, chapter 5, in Catch-22:

     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 put her at ease, you know. "Saint Anthony?" her husband said. "Who's Saint Anthony?"

   • 2021 March 14, Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, “The US is now in a vulnerable spot with Covid-19. Don’t make the same mistakes Europe did, Fauci says”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 March 2021:

     Covid-19 is still spreading rampantly and must be tackled aggressively if we want life to get back to normal soon, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN on Sunday.

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
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.

• (pet forms) Tony, Ant, Anto, Antu
• (variants) Antony, Antonio, Antoine, Anton
• (feminine names) Antonia, Antoinette, Toni, Tonia, Tonya