Given name
Clitus
“to celebrate”
Clitus is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, meaning “to celebrate.”
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
How it developed
From Ancient Greek κλειτός, built from Ancient Greek κλέω (“to celebrate”) + -τος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Clitus’s family of names
Clitus has an alternative spelling in CLEITUS. In English usage, Clitus has a conventional equivalent in the Bulgarian form Клит.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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