Saturday, October 22, 2022

Sixtus the Sixth?!

I had always thought that Sixtus was a weird name, but as Wikipedia points out, it's not the Latin way of calling someone "The Sixth", which would be Sextus (which is a Latin praenomen, hilariously), but from the Greek Xystus, meaning saved.

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