athanasios
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Athanasius, a male given name from Ancient Greek.
Etymology
From Greek Αθανάσιος (Athanásios) and Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος (Athanásios), from α- (a-, “a-, un-, non-”) + θάνατος (thánatos, “dying”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming adjectives”). Doublet of Athanasius and Afanasy.
Origin
- Source language: Greek
Word Breakdown
- Root: Αθανάσιος, Ἀθανάσιος