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My patient last night was a Hispanic woman in her 30s, and Praxedis was her fn. She pronounced it pra-SEY-dis. We did not have enough language in common for me to ask her where her parents got her name. I've never heard it before. Anybody have any ideas? I'm thinkin maybe Native South American? She was Mexican, but that would not necessarily limit the pool of names her parents could have drawn on.
~Lillian~
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~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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Hazarding a guess...
Could it be related to Praxis (see also Praxiteles)?
I'm almost certain Eupraxia was/is derived from Greek eu "good, well" and praxis too, so that name would mean something like "very active".
P.S. Praxis was also the name of Klingon moon that got accidentally blown up in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Praxis. I suppose an exploding moon of that size could be interpreted as "action", in a movie-going sense of the word. At least, it certainly looks cool!
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Could it be related to Praxis (see also Praxiteles)?
I'm almost certain Eupraxia was/is derived from Greek eu "good, well" and praxis too, so that name would mean something like "very active".
P.S. Praxis was also the name of Klingon moon that got accidentally blown up in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Praxis. I suppose an exploding moon of that size could be interpreted as "action", in a movie-going sense of the word. At least, it certainly looks cool!
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On the Dutch wikipedia Praxedis is said to be the name of the daughter of Vsevolod I, Prince of Kiev. On the English wikipedia she is called Eupraxia.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxedis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupraxia_of_Kiev
Johannes Vermeer has made a painting of her:
http://essentialvermeer.20m.com/saint_praxedis.htm
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxedis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupraxia_of_Kiev
Johannes Vermeer has made a painting of her:
http://essentialvermeer.20m.com/saint_praxedis.htm
This message was edited 8/26/2006, 10:44 PM
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