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View Name: Avitus
AVITUS
Gender:
Masculine
Usage:
Ancient Roman
From a Roman family name which meant "ancestral" in Latin. This was the name of an emperor who briefly reigned over the western Roman Empire in the 5th century. It was also the name of several
saints
, including a 6th-century bishop of Vienne.
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