Sergius

Learned borrowing from Latin Sergius, possibly borrowed from Etruscan. Doublet of Sergey.

Sergius

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:7:

     Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

The English name is mainly historical, but many of the foreign cognates are popular given names.

• Sergey

• Gerussi, giruses, guisers

Originally a Roman gens name, or "family name", of obscure meaning. Probably of Etruscan origin,^[1] meaning "servant".^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.ɡi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.d͡ʒi.us]

Sergius m sg (genitive Sergiī or Sergī); second declension

1. a male given name

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Catalan: Sergi
• French: Serge
  • → Armenian: Սերժ (Serž)
• Italian: Sergio
• Dalmatian: Sergio
• Portuguese: Sérgio
• Romanian: Sergiu
• Sicilian: Sergi
• Spanish: Sergio
• → Albanian: Shirgji
• → Ancient Greek: Σέργιος (Sérgios) (see there for further descendants)
• → Polish: Sergiusz

• “Sergius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Sergius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.