Cosmas
Kosmas (Κοσμάς) , also Cosmas , is a male given name of Greek origin.
Origin and meaning
The name Kosmas is derived from the Greek word κόσμος, kósmos ("jewelry", "order", "world") and can be translated as "orderly", "moral" or "calm".
variants
- Italian : Cosimo (feminine form Cosima ), also Cosma
- Croatian : Kuzma
- Hungarian , Slovenian : Kozma
- Polish : Kosma
- Russian : Kusma (Кузьма, Козьма, Косма; end accent in each case)
Well-known namesake
(chronologically)
- Sankt Kosmas († 303), with his brother Damian patron saint of doctors and pharmacists and Christian martyr
- Kosmas Indicopleustes (6th century), Greek writer and traveler from Alexandria
- Kosmas (counter-emperor) († 727), Byzantine counter-emperor
- Cosmas († 1098), Bishop of Prague
- Cosmas of Prague (1045–1125), Bohemian chronicler
- Cosmas I , 1075-1081 Patriarch of Constantinople
- Cosmas von Graben († 1479), nobleman in the Habsburg service
- Cosmas Alder (* around 1497; † 1550), Swiss composer and magistrate
- Cosmas Damian Asam (1686–1739), German builder and painter of the late Baroque
- Kosmas von Aitolien (1714–1779), Greek Orthodox monk from Mount Athos
- Cosmas Michael Angkur (* 1937), Indonesian clergyman and emeritus bishop of Bogor
- Cosmas Silei (* 1948), Kenyan middle-distance and hurdle runner
- Cosmas Shi Enxiang (1921–2015), Roman Catholic Bishop and Apostolic Prefect of Yixian, Hebei Province, China
- Kosmas Lars Thielmann (* 1966), German university professor and theologian
Surname
- Suzanne Kosmas (* 1944), American politician
Other meanings
- Kosmas or Vom Berge des Nordens is a story by the German writer Arno Schmidt .
- Cosmas II is for the Quantitative Linguistics developed Corpus Search, Management and Analysis System of the Institute for German Language .
- Kosmas (Arcadia) , village in Greece.