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Calendar year
Year 423 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atratinus and Ambustus (or, less frequently
423_BC
Achaemenid Empire ruler, 424 to 423 BC
Sogdianos) was briefly a ruler of the Achaemenid Empire for a period in 424–423 BC. His short rule—lasting not much more than six months—and the little recognition
Sogdianus
Greek philosopher
(/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toh; Ancient Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn; born c. 428–423 BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most
Plato
King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire from 423 to 405/4 BC
Kings of the Achaemenid Empire from 423 BC to 405 or 404 BC. Following the death of Artaxerxes I, in 424 BC or 423 BC, there was a struggle for power between
Darius_II
(412─376 BC) Zheng (complete list) – Sheng, Duke (500–463 BC) Ai, Duke (462–455 BC) Gong, Duke (455–424 BC) You, Duke (423 BC) Xu, Duke (422–396 BC) China:
List of state leaders in the 5th century BC
List_of_state_leaders_in_the_5th_century_BC
Military investment of Amphipolis by Sparta (422 BC)
was fought in 422 BC during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. It was the culmination of events that began in 424 BC with the capture of
Battle_of_Amphipolis
(425 BC) The Knights (424 BC) The Clouds (423 BC) The Wasps (422 BC) Peace (421 BC) The Birds (414 BC) Lysistrata (411 BC) Thesmophoriazusae (411 BC) The
List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays
List_of_extant_ancient_Greek_and_Roman_plays
Ancient Iranian empire, 550–330 BC
Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. At peak, its territorial extent was roughly 5.5 million square kilometres
Achaemenid_Empire
423 BCE battle, part of the Peloponnesian Wars
The Battle of Lyncestis/Lyncus took place in 423 BC between the allied forces of the Lyncestians and Illyrians against those of the Spartans and Macedonians
Battle_of_Lyncestis
Play by Euripides
Hiketides; Latin Supplices), also called The Suppliant Women, first performed in 423 BC, is an ancient Greek play by Euripides. After Oedipus leaves Thebes, his
The_Suppliants_(Euripides)
Series of conflicts in the 5th century BC
referring to a treaty that had allegedly been negotiated with Persia in 423 BC. If these views are correct, it would remove one major obstacle to the acceptance
Greco-Persian_Wars
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Thucydides was sent as a strategos (general) to Thasos in 424 BC. During the winter of 424–423 BC, the Spartan general Brasidas attacked Amphipolis, a half-day's
Thucydides
Genre of ancient Greek literature
Ancientlibrary.com Won a second prize with his Κόυνος in 423 BC and won a first prize in 414 BC with his Κωμασταί. Ancientlibrary.com Ancientlibrary.com
Ancient_Greek_comedy
for over two and a half millennia, beginning as early as the 8th century BC and enduring until the 20th century AD. The earliest Iranian monarch is generally
List_of_monarchs_of_Iran
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
Daitaleis, 427 BC) Babylonians (Βαβυλώνιοι Babylonioi, 426 BC) Farmers (Γεωργοί Georgoi, 424 BC) Merchant Ships (Ὁλκάδες Holkades, 423 BC) Clouds (first
Aristophanes
War between Athens and Sparta (431–404 BC)
Athenian who fought in the early part of the war, Thucydides was exiled in 423 BC and settled in the Peloponnese, where he spent the rest of the war collecting
Peloponnesian_War
Calendar year
Paul. “Aristophanes: The Complete Plays.” The New American Library) 424/423 BC - estimated birth of Plato, a famous philosopher. The Achaemenid king Artaxerxes
424_BC
Comedy by Aristophanes
in classical Athens, it was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and was not as well received as the author had hoped, coming last of the
The_Clouds
Obscene raising of the middle finger
penetration" or katapygaina to a female. In Aristophanes's comedy The Clouds (423 BC), when the character Socrates is quizzing his student on poetic meters,
The_finger
Ruler of the Achaemenid Empire in 424 BC
Elam. Ochus' first inscription as Darius II can be dated to January 10, 423 BC. He was already satrap of Hyrcania and was soon recognized by Media, Babylonia
Xerxes_II
Socratic dialogue written by Plato
trial for corruption and impiety. Years earlier, in the play The Clouds (423 BC), Aristophanes lampooned Socrates as a charlatan, the paradigm philosopher
Apology_(Plato)
Nephew of Persian king Artaxerxes I (died 423 BC)
(/məˈnɒstəniːz/; died 423 BC) was a Persian prince, son of Artarius, the satrap of Babylonia and thus nephew of king Artaxerxes I. Around 445 BC he commanded the
Menostanes
Topics referred to by the same term
Darius II was king of the Persian Empire from 423 BC to 405 or 404 BC. Darius II may also refer to: Darius II of Persis (1st century AD), king of the
Darius_II_(disambiguation)
which existed as an independent realm from the 19th century BC to its fall in the 6th century BC. For the majority of its existence as an independent kingdom
List_of_kings_of_Babylon
One hundred years, from 500 BC to 401 BC
The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. This century saw the establishment of Pataliputra as a capital of
5th_century_BC
Ancient Persian royal dynasty
Cyprus. Xerxes II 424 BC First in line for the throne; murdered after 45 days by Sogdianus. Sogdianus (Secydianus) 424–423 BC Bastard son of Artaxerxes
Achaemenid_dynasty
490 BC Greek runner from Marathon to Athens
manuscripts, the form Pheidippides is only attested in Aristophanes's The Clouds (423 BC). Many historians argue that Aristophanes willfully distorted the actual
Pheidippides
5th-century BC Illyrian chieftain
Greek: Γράβος; ruled c. 437–423 BC) was an Illyrian chieftain who is mentioned once in an Athenian inscription in 423 BC. He or his son (possibly Sirras)
Grabos_I
Historical region in Upper Macedonia
Lyncestis in 423 BC. Lynkestis was annexed or retained by the Illyrian king Bardylis after his victory against Perdiccas III of Macedon in 360 BC. At the Battle
Lynkestis
525–404 BC Achaemenid province (satrapy)
from 423 BC to 404 BC, and nearing the end of his reign a rebellion led by Amyrtaeus took place, potentially beginning as early as 411 BC. In 405 BC Amyrtaeus
Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt
Twenty-seventh_Dynasty_of_Egypt
3100 BC, with several times of fragmentation and foreign rule. The specific title of "pharaoh" (pr-ꜥꜣ) was not used until the New Kingdom, c. 1400 BC, but
List_of_pharaohs
Ancient city in southeastern Boeotia, Greece
those Plataeans who had supported Thebes in the lead-up to the attack. In 423 BC, Athens and Sparta negotiated a one-year truce in the midst of the Pelopennesian
Plataea
Historical region in the south-east of the Caspian sea
(c. 425-423 BC) Idernes (423 BC-?) Terituchmes Phrataphernes (?-330 BC) Amminapes (330 BC) Autophradates (330-324 BC) Phrataphernes (324-321 BC) Philip
Hyrcania
Ancient Greek colony
requests made to him by the Spartans. Later in the war, in the winter of 424/423 BC, the Spartan general Brasidas captured Amphipolis with his Thracian allies
Eion
Ancient Greek mythological figure
355 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Satyr holding a thyrsus, supporting a drunken ivy-wreathed silenus, from the Borghese Vase, 1st century BC (Louvre)
Silenus
King of the Achaemenid Empire from 405/4 to 359/8 BC
of the Achaemenid Empire from 405/4 BC to 359/8 BC. He was the son and successor of Darius II (r. 423 – 405/4 BC) and his mother was Parysatis. Soon after
Artaxerxes_II
Sphacteria (425 BC) – Peloponnesian War Siege of Nisaea (424 BC) – Peloponnesian War Siege of Delium (424 BC) – Peloponnesian War Siege of Mende (423 BC) – Peloponnesian
List_of_sieges
Ancient Greek city
that varied from six up to fifteen Attic talents per year. However, in 423 BC, it managed to revolt against Athenian rule, a situation that did not last
Mende_(Chalcidice)
Endless time or timelessness
tradition. During the Classical period (8th-7th century BC - 473/529 AD) Plato (c. 428–423 BC - 348/347 BC) described time as a moving image of eternity (in
Eternity
Method of capital punishment
this punishment was Sogdianus. He killed his half-brother Xerxes II around 423 BC. Another half-brother, Ochus (later called Darius II) rebelled against him
Suffocation_in_ash
was followed by Xerxes II, who ruled for only one year between 424 and 423 BC. However, there is insufficient information on his reign as pharaoh, likely
History_of_Persian_Egypt
Bryson of Heraclea 428 BC – 347 BC – Greece, Archytas 423 BC – 347 BC – Greece, Plato 417 BC – 317 BC – Greece, Theaetetus c. 400 BC – India, write the Surya
Timeline_of_mathematics
Decade
of Persia. 423 BC Sogdianus, King of Persia (assassinated) 422 BC Brasidas, Spartan general Cleon, Athenian politician and general 421 BC Cratinus, Greek
420s_BC
5th-century BC Roman consul and consular tribune
Fabius Vibulanus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 423 BC and a consular tribune in 416 and 414 BC. Fabius belonged to the patrician Fabia gens and the
Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 423 BC)
Quintus_Fabius_Vibulanus_(consul_423_BC)
Form of theatre from Ancient Greece
stephanophoros), 428 BC; The Trojan Women (Τρώαδες / Troades), 415 BC; Andromache (Ἀνδρομάχη /Andromache), date unknown; Hecuba (Ἑκάβη / Hekabe), 423 BC; Suppliants
Greek_tragedy
Electromagnetic radiation generated by the thermal motion of particles
back to about 700 BC. One of the first accurate mentions of burning glasses appears in Aristophanes's comedy The Clouds, written in 423 BC. According to the
Thermal_radiation
5th century BC history book by Thucydides
Heraclea in Trachis. 3.92–3.93 Athenians purify Delos. 3.104 Book 4 (425–423 BC) Annual invasion of Attica. 4.2 Athenians en route to Sicily occupy Pylos
History of the Peloponnesian War
History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War
399 B.C. legal proceedings by the city of Athens against Socrates
intellectual and moral gadfly of their society. In the comic play, The Clouds (423 BC), Aristophanes represents Socrates as a sophistic philosopher who teaches
Trial_of_Socrates
446–388 BC), a leading source for Greek Old Comedy The Acharnians (425 BC) The Knights (424 BC) The Clouds (423 BC) The Wasps (422 BC) Peace (421 BC) The
List of ancient Greek playwrights
List_of_ancient_Greek_playwrights
Topics referred to by the same term
known as Menon III of Pharsalus (423? BC–400 BC), the character of Plato's Meno dialogue Menon IV of Pharsalus (375 BC–321 BC), 4th century Greek general Menon
Menon_of_Pharsalus
5th-century BC Spartan general
Athenian generals) at the head of an Athenian squadron. In the spring of 423 BC a truce was concluded between Athens and Sparta, but it was at once imperilled
Brasidas
p. 317) or more precisely: May 12, 1274 BC based on Ramesses' commonly accepted accession date in 1279 BC. "Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
List_of_battles_before_301
Albertz, R.; Israel in exile: The history and literature of the sixth century BC; Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2003, p. 63 ISBN 1-58983-055-5. Livy
List of heads of state and government who were assassinated or executed
List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_who_were_assassinated_or_executed
Festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens
Babylonians) 423 BC - Cratinus (The Wicker Flask) 422 BC - Cantharus 421 BC - Eupolis (The Flatterers); Aristophanes took 2nd place with Peace 414 BC - Ameipsias
Dionysia
School of philosophy in Ancient Greece
have started with Hermippus of Smyrna. Unlike Plato (born c. 428–423 BC, died 348 BC), Aristotle was not a citizen of Athens, and could not own property;
Peripatetic_school
Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it was the largest empire by that point in history
List_of_Achaemenid_emperors
Argive priestess of Hera
war, in 431 BC, Chrysis was in the 48th year of her tenure as head priestess of Argos. The burning of the temple, in the summer of 423 BC, is mentioned
Chrysis_(priestess)
5th-century BC Roman statesman and consul
465 and 459 BC. He was probably the elder brother of Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, consul in 423 BC, and Gnaeus Fabius Vibulanus, consul in 421 BC. Filiations
Marcus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 442 BC)
Marcus_Fabius_Vibulanus_(consul_442_BC)
Visible mass of particles suspended in the atmosphere
Clouds, written by Aristophanes and first performed at the City Dionysia in 423 BC, the philosopher Socrates declares that the Clouds are the only true deities
Cloud
Calendar year
Year 420 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Cincinnatus and Medullinus (or, less
420_BC
5th-century BC Roman statesman, general and consul
Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus (513 BC – after 423 BC) was a Roman statesman and general who served as consul six times. Titus Quinctius was a member
Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus
Titus_Quinctius_Capitolinus_Barbatus
5th century BC military conflicts
referring to a treaty that had allegedly been negotiated with Persia in 423 BC. If these views are correct, it would remove one major obstacle to the acceptance
Wars_of_the_Delian_League
Zhou dynasty Chinese vassal state (806–375 BC)
rank of Bo (伯), a kinship term meaning "elder". Zheng was founded in 806 BC when King Xuan of Zhou, the penultimate king of the Western Zhou, made his
Zheng_(state)
Navigational template showing Odrysian kings
contest with Sparta for possession of Amphipolis in 425–423 BC, nor against Perdiccas in 418–415 BC. Whether Seuthes' policy was due to loyalty, to prudent
Seuthes_I
Topics referred to by the same term
423 BC), Greek historian Antiochus (admiral), Athenian admiral of Alcibiades (407 BC) Antiochus of Arcadia, Greek envoy to Persia (4th century BC) Antiochus
Antiochus
story about the death of the Athenian poet and playwright Philemon (d. c. 262 BC). Hoff, Ursula (1937). "Meditation in Solitude". Journal of the Warburg Institute
List of unusual deaths in antiquity
List_of_unusual_deaths_in_antiquity
Lunisolar calendar
rejected the rearrangement and went home. Aristophanes' Clouds, a comedy from 423 BC, contains a speech whose complaint is brought from the Moon: the Athenians
Attic_calendar
Topics referred to by the same term
comedy play by Aristophanes, originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC The Clouds, a 1797 play by Richard Cumberland The Clouds (Las nubes), a
Cloud_(disambiguation)
writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC. Prehistory covers the time from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the beginning
Timeline_of_prehistory
In Greek mythology, may refer to one of four individuals
which the Mantineans retreated, when they were defeated by the Tegeatae in 423 BC during the Peloponnesian War. English Wikisource has original text related
Bucolion
Index of articles associated with the same name
Vibulanus (consul 485 BC), Roman consul Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 467 BC), Roman consul Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 423 BC), Roman consul This
Vibulanus
5th-century BC Athenian general
and Nicostratus, he ratified, on the part of Athens, the truce which in 423 BC was concluded for one year with Sparta. Thucydides iv. 53 (cited in Smith)
Autocles,_son_of_Tolmaeus
5th century BC Roman consular tribune and consul
Sempronius Atratinus, consul in 444 BC and one of the first censors of the Republic. Gaius Sempronius Atratinus, consul in 423 BC and a contemporary relative
Aulus Sempronius Atratinus (consular tribune 425 BC)
Aulus_Sempronius_Atratinus_(consular_tribune_425_BC)
Dialogue about Socrates' legal defence at his trial
philosopher and an atheist in, for example, Aristophanes's comedy The Clouds (423 BC). As portrayed by Xenophon, Socrates does not claim to be wise "from the
Apology_(Xenophon)
Calendar year
Year 422 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Capitolinus, Mugillanus and Merenda
422_BC
Athenian Old Comedy poet (519–422 BC)
121; just before Pherecrates and Hermippus). He was still competing in 423 BC, when his Pytine took the prize at the City Dionysia; he died shortly thereafter
Cratinus
Optical device which transmits and refracts light
PMID 9574655. Aristophanes (22 January 2013) [First performed in 423 BC]. The Clouds. Translated by Hickie, William James. Project Gutenberg. EBook
Lens
an Oscan-speaking tribe expanding towards the more fertile plains. In 423 BC Capua, the great Etruscan stronghold-granary, was conquered by the Samnites
History_of_Naples
Bulgaria 423 BC. Illyrians & Lyncestians cause the Macedonians to flee and the Spartans to escape during the Peloponnesian War (Battle of Lyncestis) 418 BC. Artas
Illyrian_warfare
Calendar year
Year 426 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Cincinnatus, Albinus, Fusus and Cossus
426_BC
(427 BC) Babylonians (426 BC) The Clouds (first version 423 BC) Amphiaraus (414 BC) Plutus (first version 408 BC) Cocalus (387 BC) Aiolosicon (387 BC) Speusippus
List_of_lost_literary_works
Problems in reconstructing a historical and philosophical image of Socrates
younger than Socrates and states that when Aristophanes wrote Clouds in 423 BC, both Plato and Xenophon were infants. other sources show Plato as something
Socratic_problem
Calendar year
Year 421 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Barbatus (or
421_BC
5th-century BC Roman consul
Gaius Sempronius Atratinus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 423 BC. Sempronius belonged to the patrician Sempronia gens and the branch known as the
Gaius_Sempronius_Atratinus
Greek parchment manuscript
of Socrates (1787 painting) Socrates (1950 sculpture) Stage The Clouds (423 BC play) Der geduldige Socrates (1721 opera) Socrates (1759 play) Socrate (1919
Codex_Vaticanus_Graecus_64
Calendar year
Year 425 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Atratinus, Medullinus, Cincinnatus and
425_BC
Comedy by Aristophanes
and it quotes from some of his old songs (526–36). In the following year (423 BC) he won first prize with The Bottle – a satire on his drinking problem –
The_Knights
(1972), in which he scores the winning goal Socrates (1971) The Clouds (423 BC) Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that lampoons intellectualism in classical
List of cultural depictions of Socrates
List_of_cultural_depictions_of_Socrates
Date Victim(s) Assassin(s) Notes 465 BC Xerxes I, Persian king Artabanus, commander of the royal bodyguard 423 BC Xerxes II, Persian king Sogdianus, Xerxes'
List of assassinations in Asia
List_of_assassinations_in_Asia
Period of eastern Mediterranean history from 323 to 30 BC
Century BC by D. M. Lewis (Editor), John Boardman (Editor), Simon Hornblower (Editor), M. Ostwald (Editor), ISBN 0-521-23348-8, 1994, p. 423, "Through
Hellenistic_period
Ancient Roman family
a cavalry officer serving under Gaius Sempronius Atratinus, consul in 423 BC, was elected tribune of the plebs in 422, together with three of his colleagues
Sellia_gens
Roman politician
Gaius Claudius Marcellus (88 BC – May 40 BC) was a Roman senator who served as Consul in 50 BC. He was a friend to Roman senator Cicero and an early opponent
Gaius Claudius Marcellus (consul 50 BC)
Gaius_Claudius_Marcellus_(consul_50_BC)
Roman general and dictator (100–44 BC)
July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general, statesman, and author who was the dictator of the Roman Republic almost continuously from 49 BC until
Julius_Caesar
5th-century BC Roman patrician and consular tribune
comitia and the election of the consular college of 423 BC. Nautius is not mentioned after 424 BC but both his sons, Spurius and Gaius, became successful
Spurius Nautius Rutilus (consular tribune 424 BC)
Spurius_Nautius_Rutilus_(consular_tribune_424_BC)
423 BC. Illyrians & Lyncestians cause the Macedonians to flee and the Spartans to escape during the Peloponnesian War (Battle of Lyncestis). 418 BC.
Timeline_of_Illyrian_history
Late-5th/early 4th-century Macedonian prince
Sirrhas (Ancient Greek: Σίρρας; d. 390 BC) was the son-in-law of the king of Lynkestis, Arrhabaeus (fl. 423–393 BC), having married his daughter Irra. He
Sirras
Airborne obscurant using gas and particulates
wood and pitch was carried by the wind into Plataea (428 B.C.) and later at Delium (423 B.C.) and that at Delium, defenders were driven from the city
Smoke_screen
Greek sculptor MPC · 5981 5982 Polykletus 4862 T-1 Polykleitos (c. 480–423 BC), ancient Greek sculptor in bronze MPC · 5982 5983 Praxiteles 2285 T-2 Praxiteles
Meanings of minor-planet names: 5001–6000
Meanings_of_minor-planet_names:_5001–6000
Decline of trust in authority
A manuscript of Thucydides' writings, who Morris Zelditch claims was one of the first people to write about a theory of legitimacy in 423 B.C.
Legitimation_crisis
Siege during the Sicilian Wars
the summer of 398 BC or the spring of 397 BC. Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse, after securing peace with Carthage in 405 BC, had steadily increased
Siege_of_Segesta_(397_BC)
423 BC
423 BC
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. Perhaps a variant of Wren.Dutch (de Ren) : origin unexplained.Variant spelling of German Renn.Swedish : soldier’s name, from ren ‘reindeer’.Chinese : from the name of Rencheng ‘Ren City’, which was granted to Yu Yang, the 25th son of the Emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 bc). Some of his descendants later adopted the place name as their surname.
Girl/Female
Hebrew American English Spanish
God has judged, or God is judge. The Old Testament Daniel was a 6th century BC prophet who...
Girl/Female
Hebrew
God has judged, or God is judge. The Old Testament Daniel was a 6th century BC prophet who...
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : habitational name from Lyng in Norfolk, so named from Old English hlinc ‘hillside’, or from either of two places in Norfolk and Lincolnshire named Ling, from Old Norse lyng ‘ling’, ‘heather’. There is also a Lyng in Somerset, so named from Old English lengen ‘long place’.German : variant of Link.Chinese : from a word meaning ‘ice’. In ancient times, the imperial palace was able to enjoy ice in the summer by storing winter ice in a cellar, entrusting its care to an official called the iceman. This post was once filled during the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc) by a descendant of Kang Shu, the eighth son of Wen Wang, who had been granted the state of Wei soon after the establishment of the Zhou dynasty. Descendants of this particular iceman adopted the word for ice, ling, as their surname.
Surname or Lastname
Chinese
Chinese : from the place name Pan, which existed in the state of Wei during the Zhou dynasty. Bi Gonggao, fifteenth son of the virtuous duke Wen Wang, was granted a state named Wei when the Zhou dynasty came to power in 1122 bc (see Feng 1). Bi Gonggao in turn granted the area called Pan to one of his sons, whose descendants eventually adopted Pan as their surname. This name is also Romanized as Poon, Pun, and Pon.Korean : There are two Chinese characters for this surname; only one of them, however, is common enough to warrant treatment here. There are three clans which use this character: the KisÅng (also called the KÅje), the Kwangju, and the Namp’yÅng. The founding ancestors of these clans were KoryÅ (918–1392) figures, and it is widely believed that they were related.Spanish and southern French (Occitan) : metonymic occupational name for a baker or a pantryman, from Spanish and Occitan pan ‘bread’ (Latin panis).English and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for someone who cast pans, from Middle English, Middle Dutch panne ‘pan’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish pan ‘lord’, ‘master’, ‘landowner’, hence a nickname for a haughty person.Perhaps also an Americanized spelling or translation of German Pfann (North German Pann).
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long’, ‘tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus).Irish (Ulster (Armagh) and Munster) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan).Chinese : from the name of an official treasurer called Long, who lived during the reign of the model emperor Shun (2257–2205 bc). his descendants adopted this name as their surname. Additionally, a branch of the Liu clan (see Lau 1), descendants of Liu Lei, who supposedly had the ability to handle dragons, was granted the name Yu-Long (meaning roughly ‘resistor of dragons’) by the Xia emperor Kong Jia (1879–1849 bc). Some descendants later simplified Yu-Long to Long and adopted it as their surname.Chinese : there are two sources for this name. One was a place in the state of Lu in Shandong province during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). The other source is the Xiongnu nationality, a non-Han Chinese people.Chinese : variant of Lang.Cambodian : unexplained.
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Iranian/Persian
Persian name of one of the 23 Hamkar archangels, GOVAD means "good wind." Govad's special domain is "wind and waves."Â
Male
Greek
(ΒαÏσαββάς) Greek form of Aramaic Bar-Sabba, probably BARSABBAS means "son of the Sabbath." In the bible, this is the surname of a certain Joseph and Judas, mentioned in Acts 1:23 and 15:22 respectively.
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English
English : unexplained.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Schum.Chinese : (Pinyin Cen) this surname was derived from an area so named during the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc).
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Hebrew American English French
God has judged, or God is judge. The Old Testament Daniel was a 6th century BC prophet who...
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English and French
English and French : from the medieval French form of the Latin personal name Sabinus or its feminine form Sabina, originally an ethnic name for a member of an ancient Italic people of central Italy, whose name is of uncertain origin. According to legend, in the 8th century bc the Romans slaughtered the Sabine menfolk and carried off the women. More influential as far as name-giving is concerned was the existence of several Christian saints bearing this name. The masculine name was borne by at least ten early saints (martyrs and bishops), but as a given name the feminine form was always more popular.Jewish : probably also an Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.
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English
English : from the personal name Horace, Latin Horatius, a Roman family name of unknown origin, associated chiefly with the name of the poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 bc).
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Chinese
Chinese : there are two sources for this character for Wen, which also means ‘warm’. One is a territory named Wen, and the other an area named Wenyi. Descendants of rulers of these areas adopted Wen as their surname.Chinese : from a character that also means ‘literature’. Its origin, however, is from the given name of an ancient personage called Wen.Chinese : from a character that also means ‘hear’. During the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc), in the state of Lu there existed a man who has a supplementary name, Wenren. His descendants adopted the first character of his name, Wen, as their surname.English : unexplained.
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English
English : of uncertain origin; possibly from a reduced form of the personal name Dominick.Chinese : from the name of Meng Mingshi, a senior minister of the state of Qin in the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). His descendants adopted the first character of his given name, which means ‘bright’, as their surname.
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Chinese
Chinese : variant of Wen 2.Chinese : from a character in the personal name of Hu Gongman, a retainer of Wu Wang. After the latter established the Zhou dynasty in 1122 bc, he granted the state of Chen to Hu Gongman, whose descendants adopted the second character of his given name, Man, as their surname. This character also means ‘Manchurian’, but the name does not appear to be related to this meaning.Chinese : variant of Wen 3.Chinese : variant of Wan 1.English and Jewish : variant spelling of Mann.Dutch : from Middle Dutch man ‘man’, ‘husband’, ‘vassal’, ‘arbiter’.French : from the Germanic personal name Manno (see Mann 2).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the personal name Man, derived from Yiddish ‘man’.
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Jewish
Jewish : from the Hebrew personal name Amos, of uncertain origin, in some traditions connected with the Hebrew verb amos ‘to carry’, and assigned the meaning ‘borne by God’. This was the name of a Biblical prophet of the 8th century bc, whose oracles are recorded in the Book of Amos. This was one of the Biblical names taken up by Puritans and Nonconformists in the 16th–17th centuries, too late to have had much influence on surname formation, except in Wales.English : variant of Amis, assimilated in spelling to the Biblical name. It occurs chiefly in southeastern England.
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Chinese
Chinese : variant of Tang 2.Chinese : variant of Tang 3.Chinese : from a modification of the character Zhong (). In the Xia dynasty (2205–1766 bc), there existed a senior adviser whose name was Zhonggu. Much later, in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644 ad), some descendants settled along a river that became known as the Tong Family river. As the Manchus moved southwards, some took up residence by this river and they too adopted Tong as their surname.Chinese : from Lao Tong, the ‘style name’ given to a son of Zhuan Xu, legendary emperor of the 26th century bc. Two of his sons became important advisers to the next emperor, Ku. Some descendants of Lao Tong adopted a character from his style name as their surname.Chinese : see also Dong.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of tongs (Old English tang(e)), or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word (there are examples in Lancashire, Shropshire, and West Yorkshire), from their situation by a fork in a road or river, considered as resembling a pair of tongs.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a tongue of land, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (Old English tunge, Old Norse tunga), for example Tonge in Leicestershire.Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Antonius (see Anthony). It could also be from Dutch tong ‘tongue’ and hence a nickname for a chatterbox or scold, or possibly a shortening of Van Tongeren, a habitational name for someone from Tongeren in the province of Gelderland.
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English
English : variant spelling of Nye.Chinese : from the name of Nie City, which existed during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). It was granted to a son of a duke of the state of Qi; his descendants adopted the name of the city as their surname.
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Hebrew American
God has judged, or God is judge. The Old Testament Daniel was a 6th century BC prophet who...
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English
English : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Pink.Chinese : there are two sources of this name, which also means ‘peace’. One is the name of a senior minister of the state of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc), who was posthumously named Yan Pingzhong. The other source is a city called Ping in the state of Han during the Warring States period (403–221 bc). It was granted to a marquis whose descendants adopted the place name as their surname.
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Danish American German Teutonic
Free.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu
Very Just
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Indian, Italian, Tamil
Gorgeous; Beautiful
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Arabic, Muslim
Competent
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Indian, Sikh
Officer
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Arabic, Muslim
Revered; Servant of the Sublime One
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Cahaignes in Eure, France, or Cahaynes in Calvados, France, both probably named with a Celtic element meaning ‘juniper bush’.
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Hindu
Guarding, Protecting
Male
Hebrew
 Variant spelling of Hebrew Yehowshuwa, YEHOSHUA means "God is salvation."Â
Female
Egyptian
, the wife of Thothmes IV.
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A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.
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The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.
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The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
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A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.
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Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
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Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
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An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side. N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 243-246.
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A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.
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A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.
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A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96.
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One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
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The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.
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Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.
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A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
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A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity 0.97.
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The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23¡ 28'; the inclination of two rays of light.
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At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc.