Leonid

Leonid
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Russian: from the Greek name Leonidas, a Spartan dialectal form of Leonidēs, borne by a king of Sparta who, with seven hundred followers, was killed by the invading Persians at the heroic defence of the pass at Thermopylae (480 BC). This action gave the rest of Greece time to arm and prepare to meet the invaders. He was named from his grandfather Leōn, the name being a patronymic derivative of Leōn ‘lion’. Later the name was borne by two early saints venerated especially in the Eastern Church: an Alexandrian, the father of Origen, martyred in 202, and an Egyptian martyred with several companions in 304.

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