Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Πτολεμαῖος • ‎(Ptolemaîos) m ‎(genitive Πτολεμαίου); second declension

1. Ptolemy
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.2

Inflection

Descendants

• Arabic: بتوليمايوس
• Armenian: Պտղոմեոս ‎(Ptłomeos)
• Basque: Ptolemaios
• Breton: Ptolemaios
• Bulgarian: Птолемей ‎(Ptolemej)
• Catalan: Ptolemeu
• Czech: Ptolemaios
• Danish: Ptolemæus
• Dutch: Ptolemaeus
• English: Ptolemy
• Finnish: Ptolemaios
• French: Ptolémée
• Galician: Ptolomeo
• German: Ptolemäus
• Greek: Πτολεμαίος ‎(Ptolemaíos)
  • Greek: Πτολεμαΐδα ‎(Ptolemaḯda)
• Hebrew: פטולמאוס, תלמי
• Hungarian: Ptolemaiosz
• Indonesian: Ptolemaeus
• Italian: Tolomeo
• Japanese: プトレマイオス ‎(Putoremaiosu)
• Javanese: Ptolemaeus
• Korean: 프톨레마이오스 (peutollemaioseu)
• Latin: Ptolemaeus, Ptolomaeus
• Lithuanian: Ptolemėjus
• Low German: Ptolemaeus
• Luxembourgish: Ptolemäus
• Norwegian: Ptolemaios
• Persian: بطلمیوس
• Polish: Ptolemeusz
• Portuguese: Ptolemeu
• Romanian: Ptolemeu
• Russian: Птолемей ‎(Ptolemej)
• Scottish Gaelic: Ptolomaidh
• Serbo-Croatian: Птоломеј, Ptolomej
• Sicilian: Tulumeu
• Slovak: Ptolemaios
• Slovene: Ptolemaj
• Spanish: Ptolomeo
• Swedish: Ptolemaios
• Tamil: தொலெமி ‎(tolemi)
• Thai: ทอเลมี
• Turkish: Batlamyus
• Ukrainian: Птолемей ‎(Ptolemej)
• Urdu: بطلیموس
• Vietnamese: Ptolemaeus

References

• Πτολεμαῖος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Πτολεμαῖος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023