Δημήτριος
See also: Demetrios and Démétrios
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Derived from Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr, “Demeter”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɛː.mɛ̌ː.tri.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /de̝ˈme̝.tri.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðiˈmi.tri.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðiˈmi.tri.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðiˈmi.tri.os/
Proper noun
Δημήτριος • (Dēmḗtrios) m (genitive Δημητρίου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Demetrius
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Δημήτριος; τοῦ Δημητρίου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Δημήτριος ho Dēmḗtrios | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Δημητρίου toû Dēmētríou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Δημητρίῳ tôi Dēmētríōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Δημήτριον tòn Dēmḗtrion | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Δημήτριε Dēmḗtrie | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Δημητριάς (Dēmētriás)
Descendants
- Greek: Δημήτριος (Dimítrios), Δημήτρης (Dimítris)
- → Albanian: Dhimitër
- → Bulgarian: Димитър (Dimitǎr)
- → French: Démétrios
- → Latin: Demetrius
- → English: Demetrius
- → French: Démétrius
- → Aromanian: Mitru
- → Hungarian: Demeter, Dömötör
- → Italian: Demetrio
- → Polish: Demetriusz
- → Portuguese: Demétrio
- → Spanish: Demetrio
- → Macedonian: Димитар (Dimitar), Димитриј (Dimitrij)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Димитрије
- Latin: Dimitrije
- → Slovene: Dimitrij
- → Old Church Slavonic: Дмитреі (Dmitrei)
- → Belarusian: Зьміцер (Zʹmicjer)
- → Polish: Dymitr
- → Romanian: Dumitru
- → Russian: Дмитрий (Dmitrij)
- ⇒ Russian: Митя (Mitja) (diminutive)
- → Slovene: Mitja
- → Slovene: Mitja
- ⇒ Russian: Митя (Mitja) (diminutive)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Дмитар
- Latin: Dmitar
- → Ukrainian: Дмитро́ (Dmytró)
Further reading
- “Δημήτριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Δημήτριος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1216 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ðiˈmitɾios/
- Hyphenation: Δη‧μή‧τρι‧ος
Proper noun
Δημήτριος • (Dimítrios) m
- a male given name, Demetrius, Dimitri
- A saint whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 26 October.
Declension
Δημήτριος
case \\ number | singular |
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nominative | Δημήτριος • |
genitive | Δημητρίου • |
accusative | Δημήτριο • |
vocative | Δημήτριε • |
Related terms
- (informal form) Δημήτρης m (Dimítris)
- (pet forms) Δήμος m (Dímos), Μήτρος m (Mítros), Μήτσος m (Mítsos), Μίμης m (Mímis)
- (feminine form) Δημητρία f (Dimitría)
- (feminine form) Δήμητρα f (Dímitra)