Marius

From Latin Marius, a Roman family name probably derived from Mars. By folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Maria.

Marius

1. A male given name from Latin.

• Surami, Umaris, surmai

From Latin Marius.

Marius

1. a male given name

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data:22 364 males with the given name Marius have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s decade. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Borrowed from Latin Marius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ri.ʏs/

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• Hyphenation: Ma‧ri‧us

Marius m

1. a male given name

From Latin Marius, likely of Sabine origin.

Marius m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Marius: Mariusarson or Mariusson
• daughter of Marius: Mariusardóttir or Mariusdóttir

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁjys/

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Marius m

1. a male given name of Latin origin

• murais

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Marius

1. a male given name from Latin

From the Oscan praenomen 𐌌𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌔 (marius), likely ultimately of Sabine origin and from Italic, originating in Rome.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ri.us/, [ˈmäriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ri.us/, [ˈmäːrius]

Marius (feminine Maria, neuter Marium); first/second-declension adjective

1. The name of a Roman gens.

First/second-declension adjective.

• Mariānus

• English: Marius
• Italian: Mario
• Polish: Mariusz
• Portuguese: Mário
• Spanish: Mario

• “Marius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 949 ("Maria Gens").
• Chase, pp. 131, 139.

Marius m

1. a male given name

From Latin Marius, can also be interpreted as a masculine equivalent of Maria. First recorded in Norway in the 18th century.

Marius

1. a male given name

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 14 807 males with the given name Marius living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Marius.

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Marius m

1. a male given name from Latin