Talk:Vivian (personal name)

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Etymology
It is ultimately related to the adjective vivus "alive", but it is formed from the compound form vivi- (compare vivi-parus "viviparous", vivi-fico "vivify"; also vividus "vivid") and the adjectival -ānus suffix used to form cognomina. Irrelevant, all of the examples have -i- before a consonant other than r (where all short vowels would collapse into i), not before a vowel. Vivus, -a, -um is 1st & 2nd declension, not 3rd or 4th, there's no reason for the -i- to be added to the stem. If the name has anything to do with vivus, perhaps the infix is analogical. A good source needed. 37.47.231.75 (talk) 05:03, 5 January 2022 (UTC)