Ἀριστοτέλης

See also: Αριστοτέλης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄριστος (áristos, “best, excellent”) +‎ τέλος (télos, “completion, perfection”) +‎ -ης (-ēs).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ris.to.té.lɛːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈte.le̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈte.lis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈte.lis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈte.lis/

Proper noun

Ἀριστοτέλης • (Aristotélēs) m (genitive Ἀριστοτέλους); third declension

a male given name, equivalent to English Aristotle
in particular, the 4th century BCE philosopher Aristotle

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ἀριστοτέλης; τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀριστοτέλης ho Aristotélēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους toû Aristotélous
Dative	τῷ Ἀριστοτέλει tôi Aristotélei
Accusative	τὸν Ἀριστοτέλη tòn Aristotélē
Vocative	Ἀριστότελες Aristóteles
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Albanian: Aristoteli
→ Arabic: أَرِسْطُو (ʔarisṭū)
- → Azerbaijani: Ərəstun
- → Hebrew: אריסטו (aristo)
- → Persian: ارسطو (arastu)
  - → Bihari: अरस्तू
  - → Gujarati: અરિસ્તૂ (aristū), અરસ્તુ (arastu)
  - → Hindustani:
    Hindi: अरस्तू (arastū)
    Urdu: ارسطو (arastu)
  - → Maithili: अरस्तु (arastʉ)
  - → Nepali: अरस्तू (arastū)
  - → Punjabi: ਅਰਸਤੂ (arastū)
- → Swahili: Aristo
- → Turkish: Aristo
→ Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܐܪܝܣܛܘܛܐܠܝܣ
→ Armenian: Արիստոտել (Aristotel)
→ Asturian: Aristóteles
→ Azerbaijani: Aristotel
→ Basque: Aristotele
→ Belarusian: Арыстоцель (Arystócjelʹ)
→ Breton: Aristoteles
→ Bulgarian: Аристотел (Aristotel)
→ Catalan: Aristòtil
→ Czech: Aristotelés
→ Danish: Aristoteles
→ Dutch: Aristoteles
→ English: Aristotle
→ Estonian: Aristoteles
→ Finnish: Aristoteles
→ French: Aristote
→ Galician: Aristóteles
→ Georgian: არისტოტელე (arisṭoṭele)
→ German: Aristoteles
Greek: Αριστοτέλης (Aristotélis)
→ Hungarian: Arisztotelész
→ Icelandic: Aristóteles
→ Indonesian: Aristoteles
→ Irish: Arastotail
→ Italian: Aristotele
→ Japanese: アリストテレス (Arisutoteresu)
→ Javanese: Aristoteles
→ Korean: 아리스토텔레스 (Ariseutotelleseu)
→ Northern Kurdish: Aristoteles
→ Ladino: Aristoteles
→ Latin: Aristoteles
→ Latvian: Aristotelis
→ Lithuanian: Aristotelis
→ Low German: Aristoteles
→ Luxembourgish: Aristoteles
→ Macedonian: Аристотел (Aristotel)
→ Malay: Aristotle
→ Maltese: Aristotile
→ Norwegian: Aristoteles
→ Polish: Arystoteles
→ Portuguese: Aristóteles
→ Romanian: Aristotel
→ Russian: Аристотель (Aristotelʹ)
→ Scots: Aristotle
→ Scottish Gaelic: Arasdotal
→ Serbo-Croatian: Аристотел, Aristotel
→ Sicilian: Aristòtili
→ Slovak: Aristoteles
→ Slovene: Aristotel
→ Spanish: Aristóteles
→ Swedish: Aristoteles
→ Tagalog: Aristoteles
→ Ukrainian: Арістотель (Aristotelʹ)
→ Welsh: Aristoteles
→ West Frisian: Aristoteles