Everyday LifeGreek → English
Cyril
/ˈsɪrəl/noun
A male given name of Greek origin.
The Greek roots
κύριος
kýrios
lord, master
Literally: “lordly”
Follow a root:κύριος1 word
The story of the word
Kyrillos is built on kyrios, the word early Christians used for the Lord, and survives in the prayer Kyrie eleison. The best-known Cyril, the ninth-century missionary to the Slavs, devised the Glagolitic alphabet; the Cyrillic script that bears his name was most likely assembled by his followers a generation later. Britain adopted the name in the nineteenth century, and largely put it down again after the 1950s.
- How it travelled
- Ancient Greek → Latin → English
Same family
Cyrillickyrie
In a sentence
Uncle Cyril did the crossword in ink and finished it before the tea cooled.