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Δαμιανός
“to tame”
Δαμιανός (Dămĭānós) is a masculine given name from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Ancient Greek.
Ancient Greek and Greek and grWritten in Greek script. In English: Damian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-; its root is Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Δαμιανός’s family of names
In Ancient Greek usage, Δαμιανός has a later derivative in Damian. In Greek usage, Δαμιανός has a conventional equivalent in the French form Damien. In Ancient Greek usage, Δαμιανός has a conventional equivalent in the English form Damian.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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Δαμιανός has relatives in 10 languages.
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Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Damianderivative · Romanian, English
- DamienFrench
- Damianoequivalent
- Damjanborrowing · Serbo-Croatian
- Damianusequivalent
- Дамянderivative · rsk
- ⲇⲁⲙⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥborrowing · Coptic
- 𐌳𐌰𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌿𐍃borrowing · Gothic
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People named Δαμιανός
- Damian DalassenosByzantine general and aristocrat940–998
- Damian of TarsusMuslim admiral900–924
- Damian of AlbaniaAlbanian bishop1886–1973
- Damian I of JerusalemGreek-Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem1848–1931
- Damian (Samardzis)born 1935
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