Τιμόθεος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τιμάω (timáō, “I honour”) +‎ θεός (theós, “god”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tiː.mó.tʰe.os/ → /tiˈmo.θe.os/ → /tiˈmo.θe.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tiː.mó.tʰe.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tiˈmo.tʰe.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈmo.θe.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈmo.θe.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈmo.θe.os/

Proper noun

Τῑμόθεος • (Tīmótheos) m (genitive Τῑμοθέου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Timothy

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Τῑμόθεος; τοῦ Τῑμοθέου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Τῑμόθεος ho Tīmótheos
Genitive	τοῦ Τῑμοθέου toû Tīmothéou
Dative	τῷ Τῑμοθέῳ tôi Tīmothéōi
Accusative	τὸν Τῑμόθεον tòn Tīmótheon
Vocative	Τῑμόθεε Tīmóthee
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Albanian: Timoteu
• → Arabic: تِيمُوثَاوُس (tīmūṯāwus)
• → English: Timothy
• → Finnish: Timoteus
• → French: Timothée
• → German: Timotheus
• → Gothic: 𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌰𐌹𐌿𐍃 (teimauþaius)
• Greek: Τιμόθεος (Timótheos)
• → Irish: Tiomóid
• → Italian: Timoteo
• → Japanese: テモテ (Temote)
• → Korean: 디모테오 (Dimote'o)
• → Latin: Tīmotheus
• → Norwegian: Timoteus
• → Old Church Slavonic: Тимоѳеи (Timoθei)
  • → Romanian: Timotei
• → Polish: Tymoteusz
• → Portuguese: Timóteo
• → Russian: Тимофе́й (Timoféj)
• → Spanish: Timoteo
• → Ukrainian: Тимофі́й (Tymofíj)

Further reading

• G5095 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • timotheus idem, page 876.