Given name
Tomisław
“to torment + glory”
Tomisław is a given name from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tomisław goes back to Proto-Slavic *tomiti, meaning “to torment + glory.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tomisław’s family of names
In Polish usage, Tomisław has a diminutive in Tom. In Polish usage, Tomisław has a conventional equivalent in the Slovenian form Tomi. In Polish usage, Tomisław has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Tom.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tomisław has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
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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 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- TomaSlovene, Czech
- TomiSlovene, csb
- TomislavSlovene, Czech
- TomicaCroatian
- TomoCroatian
- ТоміславUkrainian
- ТомиславRussian
- TomislausLatin
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People named Tomisław
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