Πτολεμαῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pto.le.mâi̯.os/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pto.lɛˈmɛ.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

A male given name: 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.

Descendants

Arabic: بتوليمايوس‎
Armenian: Պտղոմեոս (Ptłomeos)
Basque: Ptolemaios
Breton: Ptolemaios
Bulgarian: Птолемей (Ptolemej)
Catalan: Ptolemeu
Czech: Ptolemaios
Danish: Ptolemæus
Dutch: Ptolemaeus
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
Norwegian: Ptolemaios
Persian: بطلمیوس‎
Polish: Ptolemeusz
Portuguese: Ptolemeu
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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