Δημήτριος

See also: Demetrios and Démétrios

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr, “Demeter”) +‎ -ιος (-ios).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dɛː.mɛ̌ː.tri.os/ → /ðiˈmi.tri.os/ → /ðiˈmi.tri.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dɛː.mɛ̌ː.tri.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /de̝ˈme̝.tri.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmi.tri.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmi.tri.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmi.tri.os/

Proper noun

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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Demetrius

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Δημήτριος; τοῦ Δημητρίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Δημήτριος ho Dēmḗtrios
Genitive	τοῦ Δημητρίου toû Dēmētríou
Dative	τῷ Δημητρίῳ tôi Dēmētríōi
Accusative	τὸν Δημήτριον tòn Dēmḗtrion
Vocative	Δημήτριε Dēmḗtrie
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Δημητριάς (Dēmētriás)

Descendants

• Greek: Δημήτριος (Dimítrios), Δημήτρης (Dimítris)
• → Albanian: Dhimitër
• → Bulgarian: Димитър (Dimitǎr)
• → French: Démétrios
• → Latin: Demetrius
  • → English: Demetrius
  • → French: Démétrius
  • → Aromanian: Mitru
  • → Hungarian: Demeter, Dömötör
  • → Italian: Demetrio
  • → Polish: Demetriusz
  • → Portuguese: Demétrio
  • → Spanish: Demetrio
• → Macedonian: Димитар (Dimitar), Димитриј (Dimitrij)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: Димитрије

  Latin script: Dimitrije

• → Slovene: Dimitrij
• → Old Church Slavonic: Дмитреі (Dmitrei)
  • → Belarusian: Зьміцер (Zʹmicjer)
  • → Polish: Dymitr
  • → Romanian: Dumitru
  • → Russian: Дмитрий (Dmitrij)
    • ⇒ Russian: Митя (Mitja) (diminutive)
      • → Slovene: Mitja
      • → Slovene: Mitja
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: Дмитар

    Latin script: Dmitar

  • → Ukrainian: Дмитро́ (Dmytró)

Further reading

• “Δημήτριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Δημήτριος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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^[1], 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 26 October.

Declension

Declension of Δημήτριος

	singular
nominative	Δημήτριος (Dimítrios)
genitive	Δημητρίου (Dimitríou)
accusative	Δημήτριο (Dimítrio)
vocative	Δημήτριε (Dimítrie)

Related terms

• (informal form) Δημήτρης m (Dimítris)
• (pet forms) Δήμος m (Dímos), Μήτρος m (Mítros), Μήτσος m (Mítsos), Μίμης m (Mímis)
• (feminine form) Δημητρία f (Dimitría)
• (feminine form) Δήμητρα f (Dímitra)