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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεύς (Odusseús). Doublet of Ulysses.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Odysseus
- A male given name from Ancient Greek
- (Greek mythology) The son of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus. A Greek leader during the Trojan War, he was responsible for the Trojan horse. He was also king of Ithaca, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey.
Translations
son of Laertes; Greek leader during the Trojan War
- Afrikaans: Odusseus
- Albanian: Odiseu (sq)
- Arabic: أُودِيسْيُوس m (ʔudīsyūs)
- Armenian: Ոդիսևս (hy) (Odisews), Ուլիս (Ulis)
- Azerbaijani: Odissey
- Basque: Ulises, Odiseo
- Bulgarian: Одисей m (Odisej)
- Catalan: Odisseu m, Ulisses m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 奧德修斯 / 奥德修斯 (zh) (Àodéxiūsī)
- Czech: Odysseus m, Ulixes m
- Danish: Odysseus, Ulysses
- Dutch: Odysseus (nl) m
- Esperanto: Odiseo
- Estonian: Odysseus (et)
- Finnish: Odysseus
- French: Ulysse (fr) m, Odysseus (fr) m
- Galician: Ulises (gl) m, Odiseo m
- Georgian: ოდისევსი (odisevsi)
- German: Odysseus (de) m
- German Low German: Odysseus m
- Greek: Οδυσσέας (el) m (Odysséas)
- Ancient: Ὀδυσσεύς m (Odusseús)
- Hebrew: אודיסאוס m (odíseus)
- Hungarian: Odüsszeusz (hu)
- Icelandic: Ódysseifur m
- Inuktitut: ᐅᑎᔅᓯᐅᔅ (otissios)
- Irish: Odaiséas m
- Italian: Odisseo m, Ulisse (it) m
- Japanese: オデュッセウス (Odyusseusu)
- Korean: 오디세우스 (Odise'useu)
- Latin: Ulixēs m, Ulyssēs m, Odysseus m
- Latvian: Odisejs m
- Lithuanian: Odisėjas m, Uliksas m
- Macedonian: Одисе́ј (Odiséj)
- Marathi: ऑडिसियस (ŏḍisiyas)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Odyssevs, Ulysses
- Nynorsk: Odyssevs, Ulysses
- Old English: Aulixes m
- Persian: ادیسیوس (odisyus)
- Polish: Odys (pl) m, Odyseusz (pl) m, Ulisses (pl) m
- Portuguese: Odisseu (pt) m, Ulisses (pt) m
- Romanian: Odiseu m, Ulise m
- Russian: Одиссе́й (ru) m (Odisséj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Одисеј m, Уликс m
- Roman: Odisej (sh) m, Uliks m
- Slovak: Odyseus m, Odysseus m
- Slovene: Odisej (sl) m
- Spanish: Odiseo m, Ulises (es) m
- Swedish: Odysseus, Ulysses
- Turkish: Odisseus
- Ukrainian: Одіссе́й m (Odisséj)
- Welsh: Odisews m
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See also
Further reading
Danish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεύς (Odusseús).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Odysseus
- Odysseus
