Valentinian

English

Etymology 1

Valentinus +‎ -ian, named after the founder.

Noun

Valentinian (plural Valentinians)

  1. (historical) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Valentinian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Etymology 2

From Latin Valentinianus.

Proper noun

Valentinian

  1. a Roman cognomen
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