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.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

a male given name, Ptolemy, equivalent to English 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 tōî 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

Greek: Πτολεμαίος (Ptolemaíos)
- Greek: Πτολεμαΐδα (Ptolemaḯda)
→ Arabic: بَطْلِيمُوس (baṭlīmūs), بَطْلَمِيُوس (baṭlamiyūs)
→ Armenian: Պտղոմեոս (Ptġomeos)
→ Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀢𑀼𑀮𑀫𑀬 (tulamaya), 𑀢𑀼𑀭𑀫𑀸𑀬 (turamāya), 𐨟𐨂𐨪𐨨𐨩 (turamaya)
→ 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
→ 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)
→ Sanskrit: तुलामय (tulāmaya), 𑀢𑀼𑀮𑀸𑀫𑀬 (tulāmaya)
→ 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