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Jason (given name)

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{{Infobox given name

| name = Jason

| image = Jas%C3%A3o_e_o_Velo_de_ouro_-_Bertel_Thorvaldsen_-_1803.jpg

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| caption = Sculpture of Jason by Bertel Thorvaldsen

| pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|lang|ˈ|dʒ|eɪ|s|ən}} {{respell|JAY|sən}}
{{IPA|fr|ʒazɔ̃|lang}}

| gender = Male

| meaning = "Healer"

| region =

| origin = Greek

| variant forms = Jaeson, Jaison, Jayson, Jacyn, Jacin, Jasen

| nickname = Jay, Jase, Jace

| related names = Jacin, Jasen, Jasão

| footnotes =

}}

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Jason is a common masculine given name. It comes from Greek {{lang|grc|Ἰάσων}} ({{grc-transl|Ἰάσων}}),{{cite book|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0072%3Aentry%3D*%29ia%2Fswn|first=William J.|last=Slater|title=Lexicon to Pindar|chapter=Ἰάσων|place=Berlin|publisher=De Gruyter|year=1969}} At the Perseus Project. meaning "healer", from the verb {{lang|grc|ἰάομαι}} ({{grc-transl|ἰάομαι}}), "heal", "cure",{{LSJ|i)a/omai|ἰάομαι|ref}}. cognate with {{lang|grc|ἰατρός}} ({{grc-transl|ἰατρός}}), "healer", "physician".{{LSJ|i)atro/s|ἰατρός|shortref}}. and {{lang|grc|Ἰασώ}} ({{grc-transl|Ἰασώ}}), the goddess of healing,{{LSJ|*)iasw/|Ἰασώ|shortref}}. Forms of related words have been attested in Greek from as far back as Mycenaen (in Linear B) and Arcadocypriot (in the Cypriot syllabary) Greek: {{lang|gmy|𐀂𐀊𐀳}}, i-ja-te and i-ja-te-ra-ne, respectively, both regarded as standing for inflected forms of {{lang|grc|ἰατήρ}}, "healer".{{LSJ|i)ath/r|ἰατήρ|shortref}}.Inscription PY Eq 146, line 9. {{cite web|url=http://www.palaeolexicon.com/default.aspx?static=12&wid=365|website=Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of ancient languages|title=The Linear B word i-ja-te}} {{cite web|last=Raymoure|first=K.A.|url=http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/resources/linear-b-sign-groups/i/i-ja-te/|title=i-ja-te|work=Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B|publisher=Deaditerranean|access-date=2014-03-15|archive-date=2013-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013045143/http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/resources/linear-b-sign-groups/i/i-ja-te/|url-status=dead}} {{cite web|title=Linear B to Greek: i-ja-te to i-qo|url=http://konoso.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/linear-b-to-greek-i/|website=Konoso|date=21 December 2013}} {{cite web|website=DĀMOS: Database of Mycenaean at Oslo|url=https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos/Index/item/chosen_item_id/4582|publisher=University of Oslo|title=PY 146 Eq + frr.: 3 + frr. (1)}}{{cite book|title=The Ancient Languages of Europe|editor-first=Roger D. |editor-last=Woodard|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/ancientlanguages00roge/page/70 70]|url=https://archive.org/details/ancientlanguages00roge|url-access=registration|chapter=Greek Dialects|isbn=9781139469326 }} At Google Books.

The name was borne in Greek mythology by Jason, the great Thessalian hero who led the Argonauts in the quest for the Golden Fleece. The name is also found in the Bible. The house of a man named Jason was used as a refuge by the apostle Paul and Silas.{{bibleref|Acts|17:5–9|NIV}} In his case, it could come as a Hellenized form of Joshua.

The name's adoption in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1970s, when it was among the top 20 male names, but it had fallen out of the top 100 by 2003.[http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_Jason.htm www.babynames.co.uk] Jason is the most common spelling; however, there are many variant spellings such as Jayson, Jacyn, Jaeson, Jaison, and Jasen. Common diminutives of Jason are Jay and Jace.

A feminine name that sounds similar is Jacin, derived from the Portuguese-Spanish name Jacinta or the Anglicized version Jacinda, meaning hyacinth.Thomas W. Sheehan, {{Google books|id=96u9tHR9-TQC|title=Dictionary of Patron Saints' Names| page=139}}. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2001. "Jacinta: 'The Hyacinth Flower' (Spanish) or 'The Wearer of Purple' (Portuguese) or 'The Beautiful One' (Spanish). Jacinda: (Greek, Spanish) see Hyacinth, Jacinta."

Notable people with the name

=Historical figures=

  • Jason, mythological leader of the Argonauts
  • Jason (high priest) (2nd century BCE), High Priest of Jerusalem
  • Jason the Martyr (3rd century), saint and martyr
  • Jason of Cyrene (circa 100 BCE), Jewish historian
  • Jason of Nysa (circa 100 BCE), Stoic philosopher
  • Jason of Pherae (died 370 BCE), King of Thessaly
  • Jason of Tarsus, saint numbered among the 72 Apostles
  • Jason of Tralles (1st century BCE), tragic actor singing the Bacchae of Euripides when the head of Crassus was brought to the king Orodes II[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0038:chapter=33 Plutarch, Crassus, chapter 33]

=Born before 1800=

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