Simon
Name of any of a number of men in the New Testament, notably the original name of Apostle Peter.
Proper noun
- Name of any of a number of men in the New Testament, notably the original name of Apostle Peter.
- Now the names of the twelue Apoſtles are theſe: The firſt, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, Iames the ſonne of Zebedee, and Iohn his brother: Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the...
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- His first name is Simon. I wonder why his mother named him that, or it may have been his father. My own father never bothered with the naming of us, it was up to Mother and Aunt Pauline. There is Simon Peter the...
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- Western musicians such as Peter Gabriel, Sting, Paul Simon and David Byrne - 2016, Vanessa Knights, Ian Biddle, Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location, page 52:
Origin
From Middle English Simon, Symond, Symounde, from Anglo-Norman Simon, Simond, Simund, a conflation of two unrelated names: one from Latin Simon, from Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn, “hearkening”), doublet of Simeon; the other from Old Norse Sigmundr or Old English Siġemund, both from Proto-Germanic *Sigimunduz (literally “Protector of victory”), whence also Sigmund and Siegmund.
Forms
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Sim Simcock Simcox Simeon Simes Simkin Simkins Simkinson Simmonds Simmons Simms Simonds Simone Simons Simonson simony Simpkin Simpkins Simpson Sims Simson Sincox Sinkins Sinkinson
Derived
Noun
- Alternative letter-case form of simon (“sixpence coin”).
- […] I ovve Crop the Lender a Brace, and if I have a ſingle Simon to pay him, rot me: […] - 1721, [Colley] Cibber, The Refusal; or, The Ladies Philosophy: A Comedy. […], London: […] B[arnaby Bernard] Lintot, […];...