Given name · also Slavic

Averkijus

Averkijus is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Lithuanian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Averkijus comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Lithuanian usage, Averkijus developed from Ἀβέρκιος.

Averkijus’s family of names

In Lithuanian usage, Averkijus has a diminutive in VERKYS. In Lithuanian usage, Averkijus shares a linguistic root with the Latin form Abercius. In Lithuanian usage, Averkijus developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀβέρκιος.

Walk Averkijus’s family in the name graph

AverkijusАверкийVerkysAberciusἈβέρκιος

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Ancient Greek

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Ancient Greek

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Ancient Greek

Adimantus

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Ancient Greek

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Ancient Greek

Antigonus

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Ancient Greek

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