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It is a Latinisation of the names Alois, Louis, Lewis, Luis, Luigi, Ludwig, and other cognates (traditionally in Medieval Latin as Ludovicus or Chlodovechus), ultimately from Frankish *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *Hlūdawīgą ("famous battle"). In the US, the name is rare, with fewer than 0.001% of babies receiving the name since the 1940s.
Alois (Latinized Aloysius) is an Old Occitan form of the name Louis. Modern variants include Aloïs ( French ), Aloys ( German ), Alois ( Czech ), Alojz ( Slovak , Slovenian , Croatian ), Alojzy ( Polish ), Aloísio ( Portuguese , Spanish , Italian ), Alajos ( Hungarian ), and Aloyzas ( Lithuanian ).
Aloysius de Gonzaga as a boy. Gonzaga was born the eldest of eight children, at his family's castle in Castiglione delle Stiviere, between Brescia and Mantua in northern Italy in what was then part of the Duchy of Mantua, into a cadet branch of the illustrious House of Gonzaga. "Aloysius" is the Latin form of his given name in Italian, "Luigi". [1]
The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.
Aloysius is a male given name. Aloysius may also refer to: Aloysius (song), song by Scottish alternative rock band Cocteau Twins; Aloysius (teddy bear), the Lord Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945; Bobby Aloysius (born 1974), Indian athlete
Louis, Lewis, Levi, Ludvik, Aloysius, Luis Luigi is a masculine Italian given name . It is the Italian form of the German name Ludwig , through [ clarification needed ] the Latinization Ludovicus , corresponding to the French name Louis and its anglicized variant Lewis .
Pendergast (Irish: de Piondárgas, Piondárgas) is a Norman-Irish surname derived from Prendergast. Notable people with the surname include: Aloysius Pendergast, character in novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Clancy Pendergast (born 1967), American football coach
Sevenhill is sited in hilly country at the head of the Hutt River. The township itself lays in a small level plain, but surrounding Sevenhill, particularly to the east and west, are rugged ranges, some scrub covered, which run generally north–south. The district is mainly agricultural, with a mixture of grazing, cropping and vineyards.