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“urbane; related to the city”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Urbanus is a masculine given name documented in Dutch, Finnish, Faroese and 1 other language. English Wiktionary records the meaning “urbane; related to the city”.
Meaning: “urbane; related to the city”
From urbānus (“urbane; related to the city”), from urbs (“city”).
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04 / Through time
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URBANUS— “of the town”
Urbanus is greeted by St. Paul; and another Urbanus was an early pope, from whom it travelled into other tongues as Urbano, Urbani, and Urban.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter VI (Modern Names From The Latin), Section XIX (Town and Country) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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11th century pope and initiator of the Crusades
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235 pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644 (1568–1644)
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3rd‑century Roman bishop of Rome, Catholic saint, pope during the reign of Alexander Severus
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pope of the Catholic Church in September 1590
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pope of the Catholic Church from 1362 to 1370
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06 / Behind the facts
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