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Pages in category "Greek-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 525 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin. Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare.
Fitz – (Irish, from Norman French) "son of", from Latin " filius" meaning "son" (mistakenly thought to mean illegitimate son, because of its use for certain illegitimate sons of English kings) [citation needed] i – "and", always in lowercase, used to identify both surnames (e.g. Antoni Gaudí i Cornet) [11]
It should only contain pages that are Greek-language female forms of surnames or lists of Greek-language female forms of surnames, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Greek-language female forms of surnames in general should be placed in relevant topic categories.
Greek-language surnames (1 C, 515 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Greek origin" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
Greek surnames are most commonly patronymics. Occupation, characteristic, or ethnic background and location/origin-based surnames names also occur; they are sometimes supplemented by nicknames. Commonly, Greek male surnames end in -s, which is the common ending for Greek masculine proper nouns in the nominative case.
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.