Μαρῖνος

1. Borrowed from Latin Marinus, a Roman name derived from Latin marīnus ("of or pertaining to the sea, marine"), an adjective cognate with Latin mare ("sea").
2. Some versions of this name may have been borrowed from Aramaic מרא (marā /⁠mrʾ⁠/)("lord, master, ruler"), despite appearing Latin in origin. Many individuals named Μαρῖνος (Marinus) appear throughout the ancient Roman world, but those whose names may have a Semitic origin may occur in regions with large Semitic-speaking populations such as Cyrenaica in Libya and in the city of Dura-Europos in Syria.

Μαρῖνος • (Marînos) m (genitive Μαρίνου); first declension

• Generally

1. a male given name known from the ancient Roman and Byzantine Periods [ca. 2nd-8th century CE]
2. a male given name known from inscriptions and papyri written during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, particularly in Syria and Libya. [ca. 4th century BCE-4th century CE]

• Specifically

1. the name of an author of a biography of Proclus, the Neoplatonist philosopher
2. the name of a poet whose poetry appears in the Greek Anthology, an anthology of ancient Greek elegiac poetry by various authors.
3. the name of a man mentioned in the Roman poet Martial's Epigrams 10, 83, 2.

• Μαρρῖνος

• → Latin: Marinus
• → Greek: Μαρίνος (Marínos)

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