#educated archaisms

• Avrentie — A proper masculine name of Greek origin (Abrentios / Laurentios), entering Romanian onomastics through religious, Slavonic, and Byzantine channels. Its etymological meaning is linked to the idea of 'bright', 'luminous', or, in other historical interpretations, associated with the ancient city of Laurentum. It is a hagiographic name borne by martyred saints in the Christian Orthodox tradition, which has now become a rare name with an archaic resonance.