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494 INTERPRETATION OP NAMES.
silas etiam silovanos, hence the Latin sylvanus, the god of
the woods; sylva, woods.
SILVESTER, Silvius, one who lives in woods, or country;
Latin, derived from sylva, woods; Sylvestres homines, Bau-
ernleute, peasants; musa sylvestres, or musa sylva, a peas-
ant's song, ein Bauernlied.
SIMEON, Simon, heard, one that is heard; Hebrew, shamea,
to hear; shimon, a hearing.
STANISLAUS, praiseworthy constancy, glorius stability, laudable
firmness ; Greek, stasis, a fixed state, immovable, con-
stant; Latin, status, fixed, certain, hence stanis, and laus,
praise, from laudo, I praise.
STEPHANÜS, Stephan, Stephen, a crown, crowned; Greek,
from stepho, stepso, to crown, to decorate with a crown;
stephanoo, to crown ; Stephanos, a crown, a wreath, a garland
occurs Stefan, Steffy, Stefi", Steven.
TACITUS, silent, tacit; Latin, tacitus, a name from Cajus
Cornelius Tacitus, a celebrated Roman historian, orator and
statesman under Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. He was
born A. D. 56.
TALIO, occurs as a Portuguese baptismal name; retribution,
remuneration, recompense; may be derived from the Latin
talio, talionis, retribution.
THEOBALD, Theobold, one that is valiant, bold, brave, valorous;
a compound name, from the Greek theos, a god, a
prince, a ruler, a judge, a person in station or office, and
Anglo-Saxon, heald, bald, bold— occurs Debald, Dewait,
Diewald, Siebald, Siebalt, Siebold.
THEODOR, Theodore, gift of God; Greek, theos, God, and
doreo, doreso, to bestow anything as a gift ; doron, a gift, a
present.
THEOPHILUS, see Gottlieb above.
THOMAS, twin, a twin brother ; Hebrew, from taam, a twin,
to be doubled, and Hiphel, to bear twins ; in Greek Didymus,
from didumos, double, two-fold ; dis, twice, and from
the root doo, dosi; didomi, doso, to give, to offer, to present.
TITUS, honorable, illustrious, noble ; Greek, tio, tiso, to estimate,
to value, to esteem, to prize, to honor ;
titos, honorable.
TOBIAS, the goodness of the Lord ; God's kindness ; Hebrew.
TRAUGOTT, trust God, confide in God ; German, trauen, to
trust, to rely upon, to have confidence in, and Gott, God.
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