Oriana is a given name meaning 'gold, sunrise, or dawn'. Variants include Orianna , Oriane or Orianne .
3-589: Sometimes Orian, Oreste or Dorian may be a male given name or a family name , as Orians, Oriani , or Doria . There is the Latin meaning of rising (as in sunrise ; see a similar word root in Orient ). Things get even more complicated as in the languages of the Iberian Peninsula , namely Spanish and Portuguese , there is the medieval Oroana or Ouroana , from Oro or Ouro meaning Gold, whose origin
6-651: A legendary Greek hero. Dorus was a son of Hellen, the eponymous progenitor of the Hellenes. Dorus is thought to be the founder of the Dorian tribe. The Dorians were an ancient Hellenic tribe that is supposed to have existed in the north-eastern regions of Greece, ancient Macedonia and Epirus. Another possible origin is the Greek Dorios , meaning "child of the sea". The name is linked to Dorothy , Theodore , Isidora , Dora , Doreen , Dorinda , and others. Notable people with
9-521: Is the Latin Aurum , and whose root, Aur , may be related to Ori . The Irish version of this name means ' the golden one' and stems from 'Ór' which is the Irish for gold. Notable people with the name include: Dorian (name) Dorian ( / ˈ d ɔːr i ən / ) is a given name of Greek origin. In Greek , the meaning of the name Dorian is of Doris , a district of Ancient Greece, or of Dorus ,
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