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): /anˈdrɛ.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

Albanian: Ndreu
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
Georgian: ანდრია (andria)
German: Andreas
Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌰𐍃 (andraias)
Greek: Ανδρέας (Andréas), Ανδριάς (Andriás)
Hungarian: András
Icelandic: Andreas

Indonesian: Andreas
Irish: Aindriú
Italian: Andrea
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, Andrija
Slovak: Ondrej (saint); Andrej (name)
Slovenian: Andrej
Spanish: Andrés
Swedish: Anders, Andreas
Ukrainian: Андрій (Andrij)
Venetian: Andrea
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 (2006–2019)
G406 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

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