'Anthony'

[Larry Trask]

Ed Selleslagh writes:

>  I don't know the origin of the name 'Antonius'. Does anybody?

According to Hanks and Hodges, this was originally a Roman family
name, it is very old, it is of unknown origin, but it is widely
suspected of being of Etruscan origin.

Source: Patricia Hanks and Flavia Hodges (1990), A Dictionary of
First Names, Oxford: Oxford UP.

Larry Trask
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