Mauritius (given name)

Mauritius (given name)

Mauritius or Mauricius is a Latin masculine given name, a derivative of Maurus. It means "dark-skinned, Moorish".[1] It gave origin to the following given names in other languages:

  • Mauricio, Spanish
  • Maurizio, Italian
  • Maurice, French
  • Maurits, Dutch
  • Maurycy, Polish
  • Μαυρίκιος (Mavrikios), Greek
  • Маврикий (Mavrikiy), Russian
  • Meurig, Welsh
  • Moritz, German
  • Morris, English
  • Muiris, Irish

The South Slavic name Mirče (German: Mirtsche, Romanian: Mircea) could be Germanized as "Moritz".[2]

The name may refer to:

References

  1. ^ behindthename.com
  2. ^ books.google.com

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