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Menas (other)
Menas, a male personal name, could refer to: People * Menas, one of the seventeen representatives for Sparta to swear an oath for the Peace of Nicias * Menas or Minas of Aksum, Ethiopian bishop (6th century) * Menas of Ethiopia, Emperor of Ethiopia (1559–1563) * Menas (freedman), a Roman admiral who served under Sextus Pompeius * Saint Menas (other) Other * A pirate in William Shakespeare's ''Antony and Cleopatra'', based on the historical admiral * Menas, Niger national football team nickname * Menas or Meenas, a tribe of India See also * * * Mena (other) * Menes (other) * Mina (other) * Saint Menas (other) {{Disambiguation, hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personal Name
A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known, and that can be recited as a word-group, with the understanding that, taken together, they all relate to that one individual. In many cultures, the term is synonymous with the ''birth name'' or ''legal name'' of the individual. In linguistic classification, personal names are studied within a specific onomastic discipline, called anthroponymy. In Western culture, nearly all individuals possess at least one ''given name'' (also known as a ''first name'', ''forename'', or ''Christian name''), together with a ''surname'' (also known as a ''last name'' or ''family name''). In the name "Abraham Lincoln", for example, ''Abraham'' is the first name and ''Lincoln'' is the surname. Surnames in the West generally indicate that the individual be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
