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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.

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