Βαρθολομαῖος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Aramaic בַּר תַּלְמַי (“son of Tolmai”).
Pronunciation
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /bar.tʰo.loˈmɛ.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βar.θo.loˈmɛ.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /var.θo.loˈme.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /var.θo.loˈme.os/
Proper noun
Βαρθολομαῖος • (Bartholomaîos) m (genitive Βαρθολομαίου); second declension
- Bartholomew, a disciple of Jesus.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Βαρθολομαῖος ho Bartholomaîos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Βαρθολομαίου toû Bartholomaíou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Βαρθολομαίῳ tôi Bartholomaíōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Βαρθολομαῖον tòn Bartholomaîon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Βαρθολομαῖε Bartholomaîe | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Βαρθολομαίος (Vartholomaíos)
- → Arabic: بَرْثُولَمَاوُس (barṯūlamāwus)
- → Hebrew: ברתולומאוס
- → Latin: Bartholomaeus (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: Բարդուղիմէոս (Bardułimēos)
- Armenian: Բարդուղիմեոս (Barduġimeos)
- → Old Church Slavonic: Барѳоломеи (Barθolomei)
- → Bulgarian: Вартоломей (Vartolomej)
- → Russian: Варфоломе́й (Varfoloméj)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: Вартоломеј
- Latin script: Vartolomej
- → Ukrainian: Варфоломі́й (Varfolomíj)
- → Japanese: バルトロマイ (Barutoromai)
- → Korean: 바르톨로메오 (Bareutollome'o)
- → Chinese: 巴尔多禄茂 (Bā'ěrduōlùmào)
- → Chinese: 巴多罗买 (Bāduōluómǎi)
Further reading
- Βαρθολομαῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Βαρθολομαῖος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G918 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible