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Nectarius (Kontzevich)
Nectarios, Nektarios or Nectarius ( gr, Νεκτάριος) is a Greek names, Greek male given name encountered in Greece and Cyprus. It means "of nectar". Although its etymology refers to the word :wikt:νέκταρ, νέκταρ (néktar, an ancient Greek word meaning "overcoming death", a honey miraculous beverage of Olympian Gods), the name Nectarios was never used in ancient Greece. It can be first seen no later than 300 AD as a Christian name, mainly of monks and bishops, in 20th century it became renowned in Orthodox world by the lives of Saint Nectarios of Aegina and Venerable orthodoxwiki:Nectarius of Optina, Nectarios of Optina. A Greek diminutive form of this name is Nektary. The feminine version of this name is Nectaria or Nektaria. In the Orthodox Christian Church * St. Nectarios of Aegina (1846–1920), Metropolitan of Pentapolis, beloved saint and spiritual father of Modern Greece. * St. orthodoxwiki:Nectarius of Optina, Nectarios of Optina (ca. 1854–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Names
In the modern world, Greeks names are the personal names among people of Greek language and culture generally consist of a given name and a family name. History Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin. Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare. But by the 11th and 12th centuries, elite families often used family names. Family names came from placenames, nicknames, or occupations.Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', 2016, , p. lii During the Ottoman period, surnames with Turkish prefixes such as "Hatzi-", "Kara-" and suffixes such as "-(i)lis", "-tzis", and "-oglou" became common, especially among Anatolian Greeks. It is not clear when stable family surnames beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |