Δημήτριος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr, “Demeter”) + -ιος (-ios).
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
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Δημήτριος ho Dēmḗtrios | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Δημητρίου toû Dēmētríou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Δημητρίῳ tōî Dēmētríōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Δημήτριον tòn Dēmḗtrion | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Δημήτριε Dēmḗtrie | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Δημητριάς (Dēmētriás)
Descendants
- > Greek: Δημήτρης (Dimítris) (inherited)
- → Greek: Δημήτριος (Dimítrios) (learned)
- → Albanian: Dhimitër
- → Bulgarian: Димитър (Dimitǎr)
- → French: Démétrios
- → Latin: Demetrius
- → Macedonian: Димитар (Dimitar), Димитриј (Dimitrij)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovene: Dimitrij
- → Old Church Slavonic: Дмитреі (Dmitrei)
Further reading
- Δημήτριος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Δημήτριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Δημήτριος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios). Compare to the inherited demotic form Δημήτρης (Dimítris).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Δημήτριος • (Dimítrios) m (plural Δημήτριοι) feminine: Δήμητρα (Dímitra)
- (dated, formal) a male given name, Demetrius, equivalent to English Dimitri (formal as in identity cards and passports)
- A saint whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 26 October.
- Alternative form: αϊ-Δημήτρης (aï-Dimítris) (infomal)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Δημήτριος (Dimítrios) | Δημήτριοι (Dimítrioi) |
| genitive | Δημητρίου (Dimitríou) | Δημητρίων (Dimitríon) |
| accusative | Δημήτριο (Dimítrio) | Δημητρίους (Dimitríous) |
| vocative | Δημήτριε (Dimítrie) | Δημήτριοι (Dimítrioi) |
Related terms
- (informal form) Δημήτρης m (Dimítris)
- (pet forms) Δήμος m (Dímos), Μήτρος m (Mítros), Μήτσος m (Mítsos), Μίμης m (Mímis)
- (feminine form) Δήμητρα f (Dímitra)
- Δημήτρια n pl (Dimítria, “name of festival at Thessaloniki”)
- αγιοδημητριάτικος (agiodimitriátikos) / αϊδημητριάτικος (aïdimitriátikos)
- δημητριακός (dimitriakós, adjective) & δημητριακά n pl (dimitriaká, “cereals”)