German: from the Latin personal name Christus ‘Christ’
(see Christian). The name Christ (Latin Christus)
is from Greek Khristos, a derivative of khriein ‘to
anoint’, a calque of Hebrew mashiach ‘Messiah’, which likewise
means literally ‘the anointed’.
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