GERMANUS

'Germanus' is the Latin term referring to the 'Germanic peoples'. A probably related meaning for the word in Latin is "blood relation", cognate to ''germen'' "seed" (whence Spanish ''hermano'' "brother").
;People named 'Germanus' (Latin) or 'Germanos' (Greek) include:

★ Trebius Germanus, governor of Roman Britain around 126

★ Germanus (Cermanus), Spanish martyr-saint (see Servandus and Cermanus)

★ Germanus of Auxerre (378-448), bishop of Auxerre who founded the Carolingian abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre named for the same saint

★ Germanus of Paris (496-576), also Saint Germain of Paris

★ Germanus Justinus (died 551), general of the Byzantine Empire

★ Germanus of Granfelden (612-675), Saint

★ Nicolaus Germanus, 15th century cartographer

★ Henricus Martellus Germanus, 15th century cartographer

★ Moses Germanus (died 1701) or Johann Peter Spaeth, a German convert to Judaism
;Greek clerics

★ Saint Germanus I (died ~733), 39th Patriarch of Constantinople

★ Germanus II (died 1240), 95th Patriarch of Constantinople

★ Germanus III (died 1267), 101st Patriarch of Constantinople

★ Germanus IV (died 1853), 213th Patriarch of Constantinople

★ Germanus V (died 1918), 225th Patriarch of Constantinople

★ Germanos of Patras (1771-1826), metropolitan bishop of Patras and participant in the Greek War of Independence
;Institutions

★ Sanctus Germanus, a Titular See in the Roman Catholic Church
;Companies

★ Germanos Group and its subsidiary Germanos Chain of Stores.

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See also

See also

★ Germanicus

★ Germania

★ Germain

★ Germaine