רומנוס
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Hebrew
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ῥωμανός (Rhōmanós), Latin Rōmānus.
Proper noun
[edit]רומנוס • (romanos/-us) m
- a male given name, Romanos or Romanus
- Talmud, tractate Shabbat 47a:2 (trans. William Davidson)
- אמר רבי זירא אמר רבי אסי אמר רבי יוחנן אמר רבי חנינא אמר רבי רומנוס: לי התיר רבי לטלטל מחתה באפרה
- Rabbi Zeira said [that] Rabbi Asi said [that] Rabbi Yoḥanan said [that] Rabbi Ḥanina said [that] Rabbi Romanus said: Rabbi [Yehuda HaNasi] permitted me to carry a coal pan with its ashes.
- The 'Schechter Letter' (Cambridge T-S Misc. 35.38), lines 76—80:[1]
- ...שלל אשר לקח מסמבריו ואומר בי רומנוס
השיאני...את ויאמר לו פסח אם כן לך על רומנוס
והלחם בו כאשר נלחמתה בי ואלך מעליך ואמ לא פה
אמות או אחיה עד אנקום נקמתי וילך בעל כורחו
וילחמ על קוסטנטינא ארבעה הדשים בים ויפלו שם- ...of the plunder which he took from the Severians, but he said, "Romanos
enticed me..." Then Pesakh said to him, "If this be so, march against Romanos
and fight against him as you did fight against me, and I will depart from you, but if not, here
I shall die, or live until I have taken vengeance," And thus he marched against his own will
and fought against Constantinople four months by sea. And his mighty men fell
- ...of the plunder which he took from the Severians, but he said, "Romanos
- Talmud, tractate Shabbat 47a:2 (trans. William Davidson)
References
[edit]- ^ Schechter, S. “An Unknown Khazar Document.” The Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 1912, pp. 181–219. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1451142. Accessed 20 Oct. 2020.