Talk:Sergius (name)

Disambiguation[edit]

Need to add a disambiguation page and link to this article: Sergio (film) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.212.243.230 (talk) 15:54, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Origin[edit]

Doesn't this come from a word that means servant? I heard this somewhere and would love to know what it means, since my name is Serge. Ironearth 03:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sergio is my middle name, and i read somewhere exactly the same explanation of the origin of this name (it means servant).

Nothing to do with servant. It's an ancient patrician Roman name, ethymology unknown. --Barbatus 01:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would guess that a lot of Roman names come from Etruscan, which of course is an etymological dead end. —Tamfang (talk) 06:15, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My name is Serge and I am having some trouble finding the origin can anyone help me out.

The current version of the page says it comes from "keeper" or "guardian", sharing etymology with Sergeant. But Sergeant, according to American Heritage Dictionary (http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/S0279900.html) comes from serviens, servant/vassal/soldier, which comes from servus, slave. Random House Unabridged and Online Etymology Dictionary confirm this. So, if the name shares etymology with sergeant, it's not guardian, it's servant. In fact, all sources I have seen say "unknown, perhaps servant", for example http://www.behindthename.com/name/sergius and that's what the page should say. --Cubbi (talk) 16:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've never received a straight clear answer as to the origins of the name, I agree with Cubbi about the 'unknown' clause with a stress on the viability of what has come to be the most common consensus.

Srđan?[edit]

Isn't it really from the root -srd- meaning ‘heart’ or ‘core’? I was always thinking so. — Svetko 09:03, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Famous" list is not very famous[edit]

The list of "famous" serg*s in this article is actually a list of people named Serg* who have a wikipedia article. They are not famous, they are only notable. How about we get rid of it, use a category instead or a proper "List of..." article, and only keep here the people who are actually famous (such as Brin)? --Cubbi (talk) 13:31, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On another hand, Sergius (disambiguation) overlaps considerably with this page. —Tamfang (talk) 06:15, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]