Berenice
[bɛˈrəniːs]Meaning
latinized form of the Greek name Pherenike, "bringing victory"
Background Story
Berenice is the Latinized form of the Greek name Pherenike, which meant "bringing victory" from the Greek elements phero, "to bring", and nike, "victory". It was the Macedonian form of that name, and it was common among the Ptolemy ruling family of Egypt, a dynasty originally from Macedon. The name appears briefly in Acts in the New Testament, where most English Bibles spell it Bernice, and as an English name it came into use after the Protestant Reformation. It is also used in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, French and Galician, and its Latin variant Veronica is a direct transliteration.
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