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Greek Orthodox monastery in Crete, Greece
The Vrontisi Monastery (Greek: Μονή Βροντισίου) is a Greek Orthodox monastery situated between the villages of Zaros and Vorizia of the Heraklion region
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Municipal unit in Greece
befriended and shaved by a barber in Zaros ("Saros" in the text). Vrontisi Monastery "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός
Zaros
Greek Orthodox former monastery in Crete, Greece
di Varsamonero. The monastery acted a regional monastic and cultural centre until the 15th century. The nearby Vrontisi Monastery was established as its
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Greek painter
According to legend, Damaskinos spent some time living and working in Vrontisi Monastery, where six of his icons were kept until 1800. Damaskinos moved to
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Greek Orthodox monastery in Achaea, Greece
The Saint Nicholas Monastery (Greek: Μονή Αγίου Νικολάου, romanized: Moni Agiou Nikolaou) is a Greek Orthodox monastery in Spata, Achaea, in the Western
Saint Nicholas Monastery, Spata
Saint_Nicholas_Monastery,_Spata
Painting by Angelos Akotantos
Renaissance. Three versions exist all three are in Heraklion one is at the Vrontisi Monastery in Heraklion. The second portable icon is located at Iera Moni Panagias
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Historic monastery in Kalavryta Municipality, Achaia, Greece
The Agia Lavra ("Holy Lavra") is an Eastern Orthodox monastery near Kalavryta, Achaea, Greece. It was built in 961 AD, on Chelmos Mountain, at 961 metres
Agia_Lavra
Greek Orthodox monastery in Western Greece
Theotokos Monastery (Greek: Ιερά Μονή Εισοδίων της Θεοτόκου) or Panagia Phaneromeni Monastery (Μονή Παναγίας Φανερωμένης) is a Greek Orthodox monastery, located
Presentation of the Theotokos Monastery, Myrtia
Presentation_of_the_Theotokos_Monastery,_Myrtia
1943 battle during the German occupation of Crete in World War II
arranged to receive the Holy Communion from a monk of the nearby Vrontisi Monastery and were preparing to celebrate the Dormition. Unknowingly, however
Battle_of_Trahili
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German
German : habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a panther, Middle High German panter (see Panther 1).North German : occupational name for a mortager or pawn broker, from a contracted form of Pfandherr.English (mainly Northamptonshire) and Scottish : occupational name for a servant in charge of the supply of bread and other provisions in a monastery or large household, Middle English pan(e)ter (Old French panetier).
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from an agent derivative of Middle English stor ‘provisions’, ‘supplies’, hence an occupational name for an official in charge of dispensing provisions in a great house or monastery, or who collected rents paid in kind. The word stor was also used in the Middle Ages for livestock, and the surname may sometimes have denoted a keeper of animals.South German : from a Bavarian dialect word, storer, denoting an unskilled workman, i.e. someone who was not a member of a craft guild.
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English
English : from Middle English, Old French seintuarie ‘sanctuary’, ‘shrine’ (Late Latin sanctuarium, a derivative of sanctus ‘holy’); a topographic name for someone who lived near a shrine, or a nickname for someone who had had occasion to take sanctuary in a church or monastery, where he would have been afforded immunity from arrest or injury.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from Old French paradis, denoting someone who lived by a park or pleasure garden, especially one attached to a monastery, nunnery, or cathedral.Americanized form of French Paradis or Italian Paradiso.Americanized form of a Greek family name such as Paradissis, Paradissiadis, or Paradissopoulos, from a personal name based on ancient Greek paradeisos ‘paradise’, ‘pleasure garden’, from Persian pairidaesa ‘royal park’.Americanized form of German Paradies, a German topographic name and house name and an ornamental Ashkenazic Jewish name, from Middle High German paradīs(e), German Paradies ‘paradise’, ‘park’, ‘pleasure garden’ (see 1 and 3).
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name, a variant of Sell 1.English and Scottish : occupational name for a saddler, from Anglo-Norman French seller (Old French sellier, Latin sellarius, a derivative of sella ‘seat’, ‘saddle’).English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the cellars of a great house or monastery, from Anglo-Norman French celler ‘cellar’ (Old French cellier), or a reduction of the Middle English agent derivative cellerer.English and Scottish : occupational name for a tradesman or merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle English sell(en) ‘to sell’ (Old English sellan ‘to hand over, deliver’).German : probably a habitational name from a place named Sella near Hoyerswerda.
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English
English : occupational name for a messenger or scullion (in a monastery), from Old French galopin ‘page’, ‘turnspit’, from galoper ‘to gallop’.
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English
English : from Old French and Middle English frere ‘friar’ (Latin frater, literally ‘brother’). This was a status name for a member a religious order, especially a mendicant order, and may also have been a nickname for a pious person or for someone employed at a monastery.Americanized spelling of French Frère (see Frere).North German and Dutch : cognate of Friedrich.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English porter ‘doorkeeper’, ‘gatekeeper’ (Old French portier). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. As an American surname, this has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other European languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner) and North German Poertner.English : occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Old French porteo(u)r (Late Latin portator, from portare ‘to carry or convey’).Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch portere ‘doorkeeper’. Compare 1.Dutch : status name for a freeman (burgher) of a seaport, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : adoption of the English or Dutch name in place of some Ashkenazic name of similar sound or meaning.
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English
English : occupational name for an outrider, from Middle English rid(en) ‘to ride’ + out ‘out’, ‘forth’. An outrider (Middle English outridere) was an officer of a sheriff’s court or of a monastery whose duties included riding out to collect dues and supervise manors.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places so called, which split more or less evenly into two groups with different etymologies. One set (with examples in Berkshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) is named from the Old English weak dative hēan (originally used after a preposition and article) of hēah ‘high’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The other (with examples in Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Wiltshire) has Old English hīwan ‘household’, ‘monastery’. Compare Hine as the first element.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : from Middle High German kellaere ‘cellarman’, ‘cellar master’ (Latin cellarius, denoting the keeper of the cella ‘store chamber’, ‘pantry’). Hence an occupational name for the overseer of the stores, accounts, or household in general in, for example, a monastery or castle. Kellers were important as trusted stewards in a great household, and in some cases were promoted to ministerial rank. The surname is widespread throughout central Europe.English : either an occupational name for a maker of caps or cauls, from Middle English kellere, or an occupational name for an executioner, from Old English cwellere.Irish : reduced form of Kelleher.Scottish : variant of Keillor.
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English
English : occupational name for an innkeeper, from Middle English (h)osteler (Old French (h)ostelier, an agent derivative of hostel, meaning a sizeable house in which guests could be lodged in separate rooms, derived from Late Latin hospitalis, from the genitive case of hospes ‘guest’). This term was at first applied to the secular officer in a monastery who was responsible for the lodging of visitors, but it was later extended to keepers of commercial hostelries, and this is probably the usual sense of the surname. The more restricted modern English sense, ‘groom’, is also a possible source.German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with a cognate of Old High German Åst(an) (see Oest).
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English
English : habitational name from places in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire called Winthorpe. The former is named with the Old English personal name or byname Wine, meaning ‘friend’, + Old Norse þorp ‘settlement’. In the latter the first element is a contracted form of the Old English personal name Wigmund, composed of the elements wÄ«g ‘war’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse equivalent, VÃgmundr.John Winthrop (1588–1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He kept a detailed journal, an invaluable source for historians. He was born into a family of Suffolk, England, gentry whose fortunes were founded by his grandfather Adam Winthrop (d. 1562) of Lavenham. In 1544 the latter acquired a 500-acre estate that had been part of the monastery of Bury St. Edmunds. John Winthrop emigrated from Groton, Suffolk, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630 because of Charles I’s anti-Puritan policies. By the time of his death he had had four wives and 16 children, the most notable of whom was his son John (1606–76), a scientist and governor of CT. His descendants were prominent in politics and science, including John Winthrop (1714–79), an astronomer, and Robert Winthrop (1809–94), a senator and speaker of the House of Representatives.
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English
English : from the Old French personal name Hu(gh)e, introduced to Britain by the Normans. This is in origin a short form of any of the various Germanic compound names with the first element hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’. Compare, for example, Howard 1, Hubble, and Hubert. It was a popular personal name among the Normans in England, partly due to the fame of St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140–1200), who was born in Burgundy and who established the first Carthusian monastery in England.In Ireland and Scotland this name has been widely used as an equivalent of Celtic Aodh ‘fire’, the source of many Irish surnames (see for example McCoy).
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from Middle English kychene ‘kitchen’, hence an occupational name for someone who worked in or was in charge of the kitchen of a monastery or great house.Scottish and northern Irish : variant of McCutcheon.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for a servant employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’, ‘storeroom’ (a reduced form of Old French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of dispendere, past participle dispensus, ‘to weigh out or dispense’).
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German
German : patronymic from a personal name (Latin Gallus) which was widespread in Europe in the Middle Ages (see Gall 2).German : nickname for someone in the service of the monastery of St Gallen, or a habitational name for someone from the city in Switzerland so named.English : variant of Gallier.Hungarian (Gallér) : from gallér ‘collar’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a taylor, in particular a maker of military garments.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Galle ‘bile’, ‘gall’, with the agent suffix -er. This surname seems to have been one of the group of names selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for obtaining the supplies required by a monastery or manor house, from Anglo-Norman French purchacer ‘to acquire or buy’ (Old French pourchacier, from chacier ‘to chase or catch’ + the intensive prefix p(o)ur, Latin pro).
Surname or Lastname
English (of Breton or Cornish origin)
English (of Breton or Cornish origin) : from a Celtic personal name, Old Breton Iudicael, composed of elements meaning ‘lord’ + ‘generous’, ‘bountiful’, which was borne by a 7th-century saint, a king of Brittany who abdicated and spent the last part of his life in a monastery. Forms of this name are found in medieval records not only in Devon and Cornwall, where they are of native origin, but also in East Anglia and even Yorkshire, whither they were imported by Bretons after the Norman Conquest.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’ + the agent suffix -er.
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Mallesha | மாலà¯à®²à¯‡à®·à®¾
One of Shiva name
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Assamese, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Telugu, Traditional
A Lamp of Precious Stones
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Lord Rama
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Elf counsel
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English : unexplained.Dutch (Minsen) patronymic from the Germanic personal name Me(g)inzo.
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West
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Courtyard Within Castle Walls
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Rose
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French
Gray-haired.
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Biblical
Lantern; light that sleeps.
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n.
A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
n.
An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
n. pl.
A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.
n.
The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.
n.
In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.]
n.
A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.
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In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.
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A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
n.
A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc.
n.
A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
n.
The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
n.
A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.
a.
Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
n.
A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
n.
A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
n.
A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.
n.
A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.
n.
A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.
a.
Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life.
pl.
of Monastery