Laurentius
Laurentius is a male Latin given name .
Origin and meaning
The name means "the man from Laurentum " (after a town near Rome ). The connection with the Latin word for " laurel " ( laurus ) is based on a folk etymology .
The name exists in Europe in numerous variants and is widely used as a first name, family name , church name and place name . The main reason for the spread is the veneration and popularity of the holy martyr Laurentius of Rome .
Variants by language
- Arabic : لورنس
- Danish : Lars , Lasse , Lauritz
- German : Lorenz , Lasse , Laurenz , Laurens, Laurent, Laurenzius as surname also Lafrenz , Lawrenz , Larenz , Lorentz , Laurids , Lauridsen , short forms Rentz , Renz , Lentze , Lenz ; feminine form Laura , Loretta , Renzi
- English : Laurie , Lawrence , Laurence , short for Larry , Lorin ; feminine English form of the name: Laurie
- Esperanto : Laŭrenco
- Estonian : Lauri
- Finnish : Lasse , Lauri
- French : Laurent , Loris ; feminine French forms of the name: Laura , Laure , Laureen , Laurence , Laurette
- Greek : male: Λαυρέντης; female: Λαυρεντία
- Italian : male: Lorenzo , Laurenzo , Laurenzio , Laurento , Lorenzino , Laurentino , Lorentino , Renzo , Loris , Rienzo , Rienzi , Arienzo , Renzino , Enzo ; female: Lorenza , Laurenza , Laurenzia , Lorenzina , Laurentina , Lorentina , Renza , Renzina
- Hebrew : לורנצו
- Irish : Labhrás
- Japanese : ロ レ ン ツ ォ
- Catalan : Llorenç
- Corsican : Larenzu
- Croatian : Lovro , Lovre
- Lithuanian : Laurynas
- Manx : Laurys
- Dutch : Laurens
- Norwegian : Lars , Lasse , Lavrans
- Occitan : Laurenç
- Polish : Wawrzyniec , Laurencjusz, Laurenty
- Portuguese : Lourenço
- Romansh : Lurintg, Laurin, Lorin, Lorian
- Romanian : Laurențiu
- Russian : Lawr , Lavrentij
- Sardinian : Larentu
- Swedish : Lars , Lasse
- Slovak : Vavrinec , Vavro
- Slovenian : Lovrenc , Loris
- Sorbian : Laurisch (as a family name)
- Spanish : Lorenzo
- Czech : Vavřinec ( vavřín )
- Hungarian : Lőrinc , Lőrincz
Possible name days
Female name variant
Laurentia and the short form Laura are feminine forms of the name.
variants
- Labhrás (Irish)
- Lafrenz (German)
- Lars (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish)
- Lasse (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish; Finnish)
- Lauras (Lithuanian)
- Laurent , Laurence (French)
- Laurențiu (Romanian)
- Laurenz , Laurens, Laurenzius, Larenz
- Lauri (Finnish, Estonian)
- Laurids, Lauridsen
- Laurie (English)
- Laurish (Sorbian; surname)
- Lauritz
- Laurynas (Lithuanian)
- Lavrans (Norwegian)
- Lawr (Russian)
- Lawrence, Laurence , Larry , Lawrie (English)
- Lawrenz
- Lenz
- Llorenç (Catalan)
- Llorens
- Lorens
- Lorenz , Lorentz , Rentz , Renz , Renzi
- Lorenzo (Spanish, Italian), short form: Renzo (Italian); Lorenza (female)
- Lourenço (Portuguese)
- Lörinc , Lorinc , Lôrincz (Hungarian)
- Lorin (English)
- Loris
- Lovro (Croatian)
- Lurainz, Luregn, Lurench, Lurin (Rhaeto-Romanic)
- Vavřinec , Vávra (Czech)
- Vavrinec in Slovak
- Wawrzyniec (Polish), Waurick, Waurich, Wawra, Wavre , Wawrinka
- Zalorén (Mexican)
Name bearer
First names
Saints
- Lawrence of Rome († 258), martyr
- Laurentius von Camburg († around 350)
- Lawrence of Brindisi (1559-1619),
More people
- Lawrence of Byzantium († 166), bishop
- Laurentius (antipope) († 506/507)
- Lawrence of Canterbury († 619), 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
- Laurentius of Amalfi († 1049), archbishop and scholar
- Lawrence of Durham († 1154), bishop
- Laurentius I of Lebus († 1204), Bishop of Lebus
- Laurentius II of Lebus († 1232/33), Bishop of Lebus
- Laurentius von Ratibor (1381–1448), Silesian scholar and rector of the University of Cracow
- Laurentius Laurentianus († 1515), Italian medic and philosopher
- Laurentius Corvinus (1465–1527), Silesian scholar
- Laurentius Zoch (1477–1547), German lawyer and chancellor of Archbishop Albrecht of Magdeburg
- Laurentius Bosshart (around 1490–1532), Swiss canon and chronicler in Winterthur
- Laurentius von Heidegg († 1549), Swiss Benedictine
- Laurentius Petri (actually Lars Petersson , 1499–1573), first Lutheran archbishop in Sweden
- Laurentius Kirchhoff (1528–1580), German legal scholar in Rostock
- Laurentius Petri Gothus (actually Lars Petersson the Younger , 1529 / 30–1579), second Lutheran archbishop in Sweden
- Laurentius Blumentrost the Elder (1619–1705), German physician and personal physician to Tsar Alexei I.
- Laurentius von Schnüffis (1633–1702), preacher, composer, poet and narrator
- Laurentius Blumentrost the Younger (1692–1755), German-Russian physician and personal physician to Tsar Peter I.
- Laurentius Schlieker (* 1951), German Benedictine abbot
Surnames
- Georg Friedrich Laurentius (1594–1673), doctor, pharmacist and specialist journalist
See also
- Laurentiuskirche , Laurentiuskloster , Laurentiuskapelle
- Laurentius-Erbstollen
- Laurentian
- Laurentin , Laurentino , Laurentina , Pergentinus and Laurentinus
Web links
Wiktionary: Laurentius - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Laurentius - Of people, books and libraries
- Lawrence of Rome (Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints)