Name: Limnaeus
Gender: Unknown
Usage: Limnaeus is not a popular first name.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Limnaeus is ranked on the 113,837th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Limnaeus has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Limnaeus, Limnaea, Limnetes or Limnagenes, i. e. inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh, is an ancient Greek surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake, or had their temples near a lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs that dwell in lakes or marshes.
Limnaeus or Limnaios as a personal male name:
- Limnaeus, a general of Alexander the Great, in the battle of Malli (see Habreas)
- Limnaios son of Harpalos, a land-owner; he was given estates in Chalcidice by king Lysimachus
- Limnaios and Lysanias helped Rhodes after 226 BC earthquake
- Limnaeus, an ambassador of Philip V of Macedon (see Cycliadas)
- Saint Limnaeus, disciple of Saint Thalassius, an hermit in Syria (5th century). Theodoret records that Limnaeus had been living in this way for thirty-eight years.
- Johannes Limnaeus (Johann Wirn) (1592–1663) German professor who wrote a work entitled "Jus publicum Imperii Romano-Germanici"
- Georg Limnaeus (1554–1611) German professor of mathematics in Jena
- Limnaeus is also a surname of species in zoology (i.e. Austrofundulus limnaeus, a fish, Gammarus limnaeus, an amphipod)
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