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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄριστος (áristos, “best, excellent”) + τέλος (télos, “completion, perfection”) + -ης (-ēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ris.to.té.lɛːs/ → /a.ris.toˈte.lis/ → /a.ris.toˈte.lis/
Proper noun
Ἀριστοτέλης • (Aristotélēs) m (genitive Ἀριστοτέλους); third declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Aristotle
- in particular, the 4th century BCE philosopher Aristotle
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- Ἀριστοτέλης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Ἀριστοτέλης”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002