Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
RU Russland, Rusia, Russie, Russia, Russia, (esper.) Rusujo, Ruslando
Patronym, Patrónimo, Patronyme, Patronimo, Patronym, (esper.) patronimoj

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Ignatieff (W3)

(E?)(L?) https://web.archive.org/web/20160731232838/http://www.billcasselman.com/whats_in_a_canadian_name/wiacn_five_ignatieff.htm

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"Ignatieff" is a Russian patronymic surname whose literal meaning is "son of or descendant of Ignatius". As a given name, "Ignatius" or Slavic versions of it, prospered even in the face of the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church disapproved of the first Jesuit, "Saint Ignatius of Loyola" (1491-1556), founder of the Society of Jesus.

The Slavic Ignatius surnames (there are more than a dozen) honour a different, earlier "Ignatius", "Saint Ignatius of Antioch". "Saint Ignatius of Loyola" took his name from an apostolic church father, Ignatius, a bishop of Antioch who wrote seven letters to various Christian communities around AD 125 that give us useful portraits of Christian life in the years immediately after the age of the apostles. "Ignatius" is shown in Koine Greek as "Ignatios".

"Ignatia" and "Ignatz" stem from Latin "ignatus" = "in" = 'not' + "natus", "gnatus" = 'born.'

However, the literal meaning of the elements must be added to, since the adjective did not mean "not born" but "low-born", "of humble birth". And so when "Ignatius" came to be a male given name in postclassical Latin, its humility made it an apt one for early Christians. There was also a Roman family name, a variant of "Ignatius", "Egnatius".

A possibly far-fetched but intriguing suggestion is that one orthographical variant of the Greek version of the name, "Iknatos", might be a much later Greek borrowing of the ancient Egyptian king's name "Ikhnaton" (1375-1358 BC), the XVIII Dynasty ruler who introduced monotheism into a polytheistic muddle of deities with his worship - exclusively - of "Aten", the Egyptian sun-god. "Ikhnaton" or "Akhenaten" means "Aten is pleased" or "he who serves the Aten" in ancient Egyptian.
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Medvedev (W3)

(E?)(L?) https://web.archive.org/web/20160731180235/http://billcasselman.com/surnames_of_the_world/medvedev_dimtri.htm

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"Medvedev" is a compound surname made up of an initial word, "medved", Russian "bear" literally "honey-eater" + "-ev" or "-ov" a surname suffix that means "descendant of".

Russian surnames were formalized quite late in western history. They reached final forms only during the first Russian population census in 1897 CE. Russian names now consist in general of a given name, a patronymic and a family name (surname).

Dimitri Anatolyevich Medvedev

"Dimitri" is his given name, explicated below.

"Anatolyevich", his "patronymic" (from Greek "father-name") is just that, his father's name with a patronymic suffix added, usually for males "-vich". Thus, if his patronymic is "Anatolyevich", it is highly probable that Medvedev's father's name was the common Russian male given name, "Anatoly". Family members, friends and close acquaintances may address him as "Dimitri". But most other polite Russians will refer to or address a man using his first two names. Hence a current Russian joke:

Q: When do you get to see Dimitri Anatolyevich trample his wife?

A: When his secretary calls into their breakfast room, "Putin on the phone."

"Medvedev", his given name, began as the family founder's only name, way back in the Slavic mists of time, when most Slavs had but one name. "Medvedev" signifies "descendant of an ancestor whose nickname or clan name was "Bear"."
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