Πτολεμαῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pto.le.mâi̯.os/ → /pto.leˈmɛ.os/ → /pto.leˈme.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pto.le.mâi̯.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pto.leˈmɛ.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pto.leˈmɛ.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pto.leˈme.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pto.leˈme.os/

Proper noun

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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ptolemy: Ptolemy
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.2

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Πτολεμαῖος; τοῦ Πτολεμαίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πτολεμαῖος ho Ptolemaîos
Genitive	τοῦ Πτολεμαίου toû Ptolemaíou
Dative	τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ tôi Ptolemaíōi
Accusative	τὸν Πτολεμαῖον tòn Ptolemaîon
Vocative	Πτολεμαῖε Ptolemaîe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Πτολεμᾱϊκός (Ptolemāïkós)
• Πτολεμᾱΐς (Ptolemāḯs)
• Πτολεμαιΐς (Ptolemaiḯs)

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)
  • Greek: Πτολεμαΐδα (Ptolemaḯda)
• → 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023