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The Cypriot identity card also includes father's and mother's name and surname in Greek and English; however all fields are transliterated. In other significant identity documents, like the Greek passport and Greek driving license, compliant to European standards, the mother's and father's names are completely omitted.
The names presented are in Classical Greek spelling, specifically of the Attic dialect, scientific transliteration of Classical Greek, standard Modern Greek, the United Nations transliteration for Modern Greek, and the Modern Greek pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The most common English form of an Ancient Greek name or term may fall into any of three groups: . Latinization. This is the traditional English way of representing most Greek names in English and is well-represented in the naming of Wikipedia articles: Jesus and Uranus (not Iēsoûs or Ouranós), Alexander and Byzantium (not Aléxandros or Byzántion), Plato and Apollo (not Plátōn or ...
Within Greek names, mythological names are particularly popular, and old-fashioned Greek names are back in style. “Isadora, Linus, George and Cynthia getting more attention,” Redmond says.
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The modern English noun Greek (Old English Grecas or Crecas) is derived from the Latin Graeci, which in turn originates from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós). It seems that the word is related to the Greek word γέρων geron "old man" (from the PIE base *ǵerh 2 - "to grow old") via Proto-Greek *gera- "old age", also related to ...
Pages in category "Given names of Greek language origin" The following 148 pages are in this category, out of 148 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.