Eleutherios
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Eleutherios is an epithet
Epithet
An epithet or byname is a descriptive term accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It is also a descriptive title...

 of:
  • Dionysus
    Dionysus
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  • Eros

First name

It is also used as a first name in modern Greek (alternatively transliterated as Eleftherios, in the short form Lefteris):
  • Eleftherios Eleftheriou
    Eleftherios Eleftheriou
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     (born 1974), Cypriot football midfielder
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  • Eleftherios Mertakas
    Eleftherios Mertakas
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  • Eleftherios Papasymeon, Greek athlete who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens
  • Eleftherios Poupakis
    Eleftherios Poupakis
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  • Eleftherios Sakellariou
    Eleftherios Sakellariou
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  • Eleftherios Venizelos
    Eleftherios Venizelos
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  • Lefteris Pantazis
    Lefteris Pantazis
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  • Lefteris Papadopoulos
    Lefteris Papadopoulos
    Lefteris Papadopoulos is a Greek lyricist, writer and journalist.Lefteris Papadopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on 14 November 1935. He is the son of Greek refugees from the Asia Minor and Russia. He enrolled at the Law School of the University of Athens but he stopped during the third year in...

  • Lefteris Papadimitriou
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See also

  • Agios Eleftherios
    Agios Eleftherios
    Agios Eleftherios may refer to two villages and one church that begin with this name:*Agios Eleftherios, Kefalonia, a village on Kefalonia*Agios Eleftherios, Larissa, a village in the Larissa Prefecture...

     may refer to two villages and one church
  • Eleutherius (disambiguation)
  • Soter
    Soter
    Soter derives from the Greek epithet , meaning a saviour, a deliverer; initial capitalised ; fully capitalised ; feminine Soteira...

  • Saviour
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