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[Facts] meaning of Aramis
My name is Aramis. There are a few meanings to this name from what I have concluded from various research on the internet. I know this is an old thread but no othr site has this information..
1. Aramis- from biblical land of 'Aram' aka Syria. Syrian Christian community Arameans. Last community who speak Aramaic dialect of Jesu. Original Manuscript of some bible books.
2. 3 marketeers character.
3. (Feminine) from Arsemia, Greek commander of Persian army, see the second 300 movie.
4. From Arsames, ancient Persian King.
5. Taken from erebus , ancient vampire, this may be the explanation given in previous comment. Said to be the Lord of darkness,chaos, etc. See: blade 4, or search book of Erebus.I tend to accept the first meaning more because the other ones seem to be bastardazations.
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Can you ask your parents about their thoughts when they named you Aramis?What your potential etymologies are concerned: You can discard 3 to 5 immediately, because they include arbitrary reordering of the consonants in the word. This does not happen usually.The 3 musketeers character is IMO the most probable source of the modern name Aramis as a masculine name.Derivation [1] would suggest a feminine name (like, e.g., Doris), since I don't know your gender, it may apply to you.Note also that Aramis is frequently used as a trademark (for perfumes, hotels, mechanical engineering companies, financial funds and other things), and it denotes a place in Ethiopia where remains of Australopithecus and Ardipithecus have been found.

This message was edited 7/1/2016, 3:21 AM

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In more detail, the musketeer Aramis' name was derived by Dumas from a surname Aramitz, in no way related to any of the derivations you've been given, but rather the name of a French Pyrenean Commune or village, currently Aramits, but previously spelled Aramiçs, Aramitz and Aramys. Although the native language is now Bearnaise, a dialect of Gascon, the region was previously Basque, and the name is believed to be from a Latinized version of Basque "haran"— valley, with a locative suffix (Basque "aran" refers to types of wild or cultivated plum). "M" for "n" and vice versa is quite a common change, in this case probably because "amitz" is slightly easier to say than "anitz".
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