Moritz (name)

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Moritz is a male first name and family name .

variants

Moriz is an archaic form .

The French form of the name is Maurice or Maurine, the Dutch and Swedish Maurits , the Hungarian Móric or Mór, the Italian Maurizio and the Spanish Mauricio, the Icelandic Mórits , the English Morris , the Polish Maurycy, and the Rhaeto-Romanic Murez or Murezzan . The Serbian variant Maric is used as a family name. An old subsidiary form in Germany and Scandinavia is Mauritz . Another form is Mauritia .

Origin and meaning

Moritz is the Germanized form of the Latin Mauritius , the name of one of the most popular saints , usually portrayed as black. This name is an extension of the Latin Maurus , which stands for Moor or Moor . This in turn is a loan word from the Greek, where maurós (μαυρός) simply means "black".

name day

Mauritius September 22nd

Name bearer

Ruler

First name Moritz

Mauritz

Mór

  • Mór Jókai ( Jókay Móricz; 1825–1904), Hungarian writer

family name