Artur

{{Infobox given name2

| name = Artur

| gender = Male

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| pronunciation= {{IPA|pt|aɾˈtuɾ|lang}}
{{IPA|pol|ˈartur|lang}}

| meaning = Bear-like, Baseball, Of Honour

| languageorigin = Latin or Celtic

| seealso = Arthur, Arturo, Artturi

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{{Wiktionary|Artur}}

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Artur is a cognate to the common male given name Arthur meaning "bear-like", or “of honour”. It is believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius or the Celtic bear-goddess Artio or more probably from the Celtic word artos ("bear"). Other Celtic languages have similar first names, such as Old Irish Art, Artúur, Welsh Arth - which may also be the source for the modern name.

Art is also a diminutive form of the common name Arthur. In Estonian, and many Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages the name is spelled as Artur. The Finnish versions are Artturi and Arttu.

Avestan {{lang|ae|aṣ̌a}}/arta and its Vedic equivalent rta both derive from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ṛtá- "truth",{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/asa-means-truth-in-avestan |title=AṦA (Asha "Truth") – Encyclopaedia Iranica |publisher=Iranicaonline.org |access-date=2013-02-21}} which in turn continues Proto-Indo-European *{{PIE|h2r-to-}} "properly joined, right, true", from the root *{{PIE|h2ar}}.

The word is attested in Old Persian as {{lang|peo-Latn|arta}}.

People named Artur

=Composers=

  • Artur Kapp (1878–1952), Estonian composer
  • Artur Lemba (1885–1963), Estonian composer
  • Artur Uritamm (1901–1982), Estonian classical composer, organist and pedagogue

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=Scientists=

  • Artur Ekert (born 1961) British-Polish cryptologist and physicist
  • Artur Lind (1927–1989), Estonian biologist
  • Artur Toom (1884–1942), Estonian ornithologist and conservationist

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