Ἀνδρέας

See also: Ανδρέας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly, courageous”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.dré.aːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/

Proper noun

Ἀνδρέᾱς • (Andréās) m (genitive Ἀνδρέου); first declension

a male given name, equivalent to English Andrew
1. Andrew, one of Jesus' twelve disciples.

Declension

First declension of ὁ Ἀνδρέᾱς; τοῦ Ἀνδρέου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀνδρέᾱς ho Andréās
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀνδρέου toû Andréou
Dative	τῷ Ἀνδρέᾳ tôi Andréāi
Accusative	τὸν Ἀνδρέᾱν tòn Andréān
Vocative	Ἀνδρέᾱ Andréā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Aghwan: 𐔰𐕎𐔳𐕙𐔶𐔰𐕚 (andrēas)
→ Albanian: Ndreu
→ Amharic: እንድሪያስ (ʾəndəriyas)
→ Arabic: أندراوس
→ Armenian: Անդրեաս (Andreas)
→ Basque: Ander
→ Bulgarian: Андрей (Andrej)
→ Catalan: Andreu
→ Coptic: ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ (andreas)
→ Czech: Ondřej (saint); Andrej (name)
→ Danish: Andreas
→ Dutch: Andreas, Andries, Dries
→ English: Andrew; Andy; Drew
→ Estonian: Andreas
→ Finnish: Andreas (saint); Antero (name)
→ French: André
→ Galician: André
→ Georgian: ანდრია (andria)
→ German: Andreas
→ Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌰𐍃 (andraias)
Greek: Αντρέας (Antréas), Ανδρέας (Andréas)
→ Hungarian: András
→ Icelandic: Andrés, Andreas
→ Indonesian: Andreas
→ Irish: Aindrias (saint), Aindriú (given name, via English)
→ Italian: Andrea
- Sicilian: Antrea
→ Japanese: アンデレ (Andere)
→ Korean: 안드레아 (andeurea)
→ Latin: Andreas
→ Lithuanian: Andrejus
→ Norwegian: Andreas
→ Polish: Andrzej
→ Portuguese: André
→ Romanian: Andrei
→ Russian: Андрей (Andrej)
→ Scots: Andra
→ Serbo-Croatian: Андреј, Àndrej, Андрија, Andrija
→ Slovak: Ondrej (saint); Andrej (name)
→ Sicilian: Annirìa, Nirìa
→ Slovene: Andrej
→ Spanish: Andrés
→ Swedish: Anders, Andreas
→ Ukrainian: Андрій (Andrij)
→ Venetian: Andrea
→ Welsh: Andreas
→ Wolof: Andare

Further reading

Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Ἀνδρέας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
G406 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

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