Athanasius

Borrowed from Latin Athanasius, from Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος (Athanásios), from ἀθανάσιος (athanásios, “immortal”), from ἀθάνατος (athánatos, “immortal”). Doublet of Afanasy and tansy. Compare Ambrose.

• IPA^(key): /ˌæθəˈneɪʃəs/, /ˌæθəˈneɪzi.əs/

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Athanasius

1. a transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀθανάσιος (Athanásios), Athanasius.
   • 2010 January, David Brakke, “A New Fragment of Athanasius’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter: Heresy, Apocrypha, and the Canon”, in Harvard Theological Review, volume CIII, № 1, page 47:

     Athanasius of Alexandria’s thirty-ninth Festal Letter remains one of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible. Athanasius wrote the letter, which contains the first extant list of precisely the twenty-seven books of the current New Testament canon, in 367 C.E., during the final decade of his life.

• Afanasy, Athanasios