Гервасій

Ukrainian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic Гервасии (Gervasii), which comes from Byzantine Greek Γερβάσιος (Gervásios) or from Medieval Latin Gervasius.[1]

Cognates include:

  • Russian: Гервасий (Gervasij)
  • Belarusian: Гервасій (Hjervasij), Граўша (Hraŭša)
  • Polish: Gerwazy
  • Czech: Gervasius
  • Slovak: Gerváz
  • Bulgarian: Гервасий (Gervasij), Гервазий (Gervazij)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Гервазије
  • Slovene: Gervazij
  • Italian: Gervasio
  • English: Gervase
  • French: Gervais

Proper noun

Герва́сій (Hervásij) m anim (genitive Герва́сія)

  1. A male given name. Gervasi

Declension

References

  1. Melʹnyčuk O. S., editor (1982–2012), Гервасій”, in Etymolohičnyj slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kiev: Naukova Dumka
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