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Gender Masculine
Usage History (Ecclesiastical)
Scripts Ακεψιμάς
Other Forms FormsAcepsimas (latinized form)
Meaning & History
The origin and meaning of this name are uncertain; it is a hellenized form of some name, which was perhaps of Middle Persian origin. This was the name of a 4th-century Christian saint and martyr, a bishop of Hnaita in western Persia who was tortured to death in 376.