Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðimítrios/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðimítrios/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðimítɾios/

Proper noun

Δημήτριος • ‎(Dēmḗtrios) m ‎(genitive Δημητρίου); second declension

1. Demetrius

Inflection

Descendants

• Belarusian: Зьміцер ‎(Źmicier)
• Greek: Δημήτριος ‎(Dimítrios), Δημήτρης ‎(Dimítris)
• Latin: Demetrius
• Russian: Дмитрий ‎(Dmitrij)

References

• Δημήτριος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «Δημήτριος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1216”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δημήτριος ‎(Dēmḗtrios).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðiˈmitɾios/
• Hyphenation: Δη‧μή‧τρι‧ος

Proper noun

Δημήτριος • ‎(Dimítrios) m

1. A male given name, Demetrius, Dimitri
2. A saint whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 27 October.

Declension

Related terms

• (informal form) Δημήτρης
• (pet forms) Δήμος, Μήτρος, Μήτσος, Μίμης
• (feminine form) Δήμητρα