Τιμόθεος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(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

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- timotheus idem, page 876.

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