Trifon or Trifón (Russian: Трифон) is a given name derived from the Ancient Greek: Τρύφων, romanized: Tryphon, lit. 'one who lives in luxury'.1 An archaic transliteration from Greek is Trufon. It is used by Russians and other peoples of East Orthodox denomination. There is also a surname variant of the word.
In Finnic languages, a variant is Triihpo, which appeared as a result of an f → hp change.2 Another variant of the word is Ruippo, a surname which was used in Southern Karelia and Eastern Savo before World War II.3 Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Metropolitan Trifon (1861–1934), hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Trifon Datsinski (born 1953), Bulgarian equestrian
- Trifón Gómez (1889–1955), Spanish politician
- Trifon Ivanov (1965–2016), Bulgarian football player
- Trifon Korobeynikov (16th-century), Moscow merchant and traveller
- Trifon Shevaldin (1888–1954), Soviet military officer
Surname
- Nicolas Trifon (1949–2023), Romanian-born academic, editor and linguist in France
See also
See also
- All pages with titles containing Trifon
- Trifon Zarezan, Bulgarian custom in honour of Saint Tryphon
- Tryphon (disambiguation), a number of people of the name
- Saint Tryphon (disambiguation), several saints
- Rabbi Tarfon or Tarphon, Hebrew: רבי טרפון (between 70 and 135 CE), member of the third generation of the Mishnah sages
- Saint-Triphon
References
References
- Наука и жизнь No03/2014 (in Russian). ЛитРес. 2017. p. 100. ISBN 978-5-457-55366-8.
- Denis Kuzmin (2017). "Adaptation of Orthodox personal names in the Karelian language" (PDF). In Terhi Ainala; Janne Saarikivi (eds.). Personal Name System in Finnic and beyond. Tallinn: Printon. p. 157. ISBN 978-952-5667-90-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 March 2022.
- Timo Rantakaulio (2017). "Personal name-based place names by Lake Lennus in Savitaipale" (PDF). In Terhi Ainala; Janne Saarikivi (eds.). Personal Name System in Finnic and beyond. Tallinn: Printon. p. 120. ISBN 978-952-5667-90-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 March 2022.