Abstract The research object of the present text is the names of saints, protecting people from diseases and health problems, and which are Latin by origin. The observation is implemented on the corpus of 41 names of saints and their variants, 29 of which are masculine by gender, and 12 are feminine. These names are classified in several major groups in accordance to the type of disease and health problem, i. e. a thematical group, and in accordance to the type of the appellative as a part of speech and the principles of derivation used in the process of coining the examined anthroponyms.

Atanasova Petkova, Gergana. Names of saints, protecting people from diseases and health problems, latin by origin / G. Atanasova Petkova // Limbaj şi context = Speech and Context : Rev. de lingvistică, semiotică şi şt. literară. – 2012. – Nr 2. – P. 82-88. – ISSN 1857-4149.