Πτολεμαῖος
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From πτόλεμος (ptólemos, “battle, war”) + -αῖος (-aîos).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pto.le.mâi̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pto.leˈmɛ.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pto.leˈmɛ.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pto.leˈme.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pto.leˈme.os/
Proper noun edit
Πτολεμαῖος • (Ptolemaîos) m (genitive Πτολεμαίου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ptolemy: Ptolemy
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Πτολεμαῖος ho Ptolemaîos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Πτολεμαίου toû Ptolemaíou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ tôi Ptolemaíōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Πτολεμαῖον tòn Ptolemaîon | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πτολεμαῖε Ptolemaîe | ||||||||||||
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Related terms edit
- Πτολεμᾱϊκός (Ptolemāïkós)
- Πτολεμᾱΐς (Ptolemāḯs)
- Πτολεμαιΐς (Ptolemaiḯs)
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: بَطْلِيمُوس (baṭlīmūs), بَطْلَمِيُوس (baṭlamiyūs)
- → Armenian: Պտղոմեոս (Ptġomeos)
- → Basque: Ptolemaios
- → Breton: Ptolemaios
- → Bulgarian: Птолемей (Ptolemej)
- → Catalan: Ptolemeu
- → Chinese: 托勒密 (Tuōlèmì)
- → Czech: Ptolemaios
- → Danish: Ptolemæus
- → Dutch: Ptolemaeus
- → Egyptian: ptwꜣrwmys
- → English: Ptolemy
- → Finnish: Ptolemaios
- → French: Ptolémée
- → Galician: Ptolomeo
- → German: Ptolemäus
- Greek: Πτολεμαίος (Ptolemaíos)
- Greek: Πτολεμαΐδα (Ptolemaḯda)
- → Hebrew: פטולמאוס, תלמי
- → Hungarian: Ptolemaiosz
- → Indonesian: Ptolemaeus
- → Italian: Tolomeo
- → Japanese: プトレマイオス (Putoremaiosu)
- → Javanese: Ptolemaeus
- → Korean: 프톨레마이오스 (peutollemaioseu)
- → Latin: Ptolemaeus, Ptolomaeus
- → Lithuanian: Ptolemėjus
- → Low German: Ptolemaeus
- → Luxembourgish: Ptolemäus
- → Middle Persian: (/Patlamyōš/)
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ptlmywš)
- → Norwegian: Ptolemaios
- → Polish: Ptolemeusz
- → Portuguese: Ptolemeu, Ptolomeu
- → Romanian: Ptolemeu
- → Russian: Птолемей (Ptolemej)
- → Scottish Gaelic: Ptolomaidh
- → Serbo-Croatian: Птоломеј, Ptolomej
- → Sicilian: Tulumeu
- → Slovak: Ptolemaios
- → Slovene: Ptolemaj
- → Spanish: Ptolomeo
- → Swedish: Ptolemaios
- → Tamil: தொலெமி (tolemi)
- → Thai: ทอเลมี
- → Turkish: Batlamyus
- → Ukrainian: Птолемей (Ptolemej)
- → Urdu: بطلیموس
- → Vietnamese: Ptolemaeus
References edit
- “Πτολεμαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Πτολεμαῖος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023