Τιμόθεος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τιμάω (timáō, “I honour”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tiː.mó.tʰe.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tiˈmo.tʰe.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tiˈmo.θe.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tiˈmo.θe.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈmo.θe.os/
Proper noun
Τῑμόθεος • (Tīmótheos) m (genitive Τῑμοθέου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Timothy
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Τῑμόθεος; τοῦ Τῑμοθέου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Τῑμόθεος ho Tīmótheos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Τῑμοθέου toû Tīmothéou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Τῑμοθέῳ tôi Tīmothéōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Τῑμόθεον tòn Tīmótheon | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Τῑμόθεε Tīmóthee | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Arabic: تيموثاوس (Tymwṯāws)
- → English: Timothy
- → Finnish: Timoteus
- → French: Timothée
- → German: Timotheus
- → Gothic: 𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌰𐌹𐌿𐍃 (teimauþaius)
- Greek: Τιμόθεος (Timótheos)
- → Irish: Tiomóid
- → Italian: Timoteo
- → Japanese: テモテ (Temote)
- → Korean: 디모테오 (dimote'o)
- → Latin: Timotheus
- → Norwegian: Timoteus
- → Old Church Slavonic: Тимоѳеи (Timoθei)
- → Romanian: Timotei
- → Polish: Tymoteusz
- → Portuguese: Timóteo
- → Russian: Тимофе́й (Timoféj)
- → Albanian: Timoteu
- → Spanish: Timoteo
- → Ukrainian: Тимофій (Tymofij)
Further reading
- G5095 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.
- timotheus idem, page 876.