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Sebastian

//səˈbæst͡ʃən// name

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  1. 1
    A male given name from Latin or Ancient Greek.

    "Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father; / Such a Sebastian was my brother too, / So went he suited to his watery tomb."

  2. 2
    A town in the City of Greater Bendigo and the Shire of Loddon, central Victoria, Australia

Etymology

From Latin Sebastiānus, name of an early Christian saint, from ancient city of Sebaste in Asia Minor (modern Sivas, Turkey), from Ancient Greek Σεβαστός (Sebastós, “august, venerable, exalted”), itself a translation of the Roman title Augustus.

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