Πτολεμαῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πτόλεμος (ptólemos, battle, war) + -αῖος (-aîos).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Πτολεμαῖος • (Ptolemaîos) m (genitive Πτολεμαίου); second declension

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ptolemy: Ptolemy

Inflection

Descendants

  • 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)
  • 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)
    • Classical Persian: بطلیموس (Batlīmōs), بطلمیوس (Batlamyūs)
  • 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

  • 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
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