Given name & surname · also Italic

Plinius

Plinius is a surname. It is used in Latin.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

The origin of Plinius is uncertain.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Latin Plinius.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Plinius’s family of names

In Hungarian usage, Plinius has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Pliniusz. In Latin usage, Plinius as a surname has a related form in Plenius. In Czech usage, Plinius as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form PLINE.

Walk Plinius’s family in the name graph

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

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Around the world

Plinius has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Celtic roots to each of them.

Proto-Celtic

3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

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

Across languages 2

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

Similar names

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Italic

Cominius

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Fergusius

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Griffinus

Griffinus is a masculine given name from Middle Welsh, ultimately from Proto-Brythonic. It is used in Latin.

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Celtic · Nature

Pryderi

“caring for” · “son of the sea”

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Curmisagius

“beer” · “seeker”

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Gaizarīks

“spear” · “king, ruler”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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