CRISTIANOS, CRISTIANOU

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Thu Oct 24 18:25:43 EDT 2002


At 04:02 PM 10/24/02 -0400, you wrote:

>
>Jim, can you adduce some support for this? While it may have been used in a
>pejorative sense, I really don't think that -IAN/OS is diminutive at all; I
>think it's basically a Latin suffix -IAN/ and that it simply means
>"belonging to ..."

cf Lipsisus' now aged document- Ursprung des Christennamens.  i think from
the late 1800's.

least thats where memory points.

jim

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Jim West, ThD
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Quartz Hill School of Theology

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