Besarion

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  • Georgian
Georgian form of BESSARION.

BESSARION   male   Late Greek
Meaning uncertain, possibly from Greek βησσα (bessa) "wooded valley". This was the name of a 5th-century Egyptian hermit who was a disciple of Saint Anthony the Great. It was later adopted by the scholar Basilios Bessarion (1403-1472), a Greek born in Byzantine Anatolia who became a Roman Catholic bishop.
EQUIVALENTS
GREEK: Vissarion
LATE GREEK: Bessarion
RUSSIAN: Vissarion
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS
GEORGIAN: Beso