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Δημήτριος
Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios) is a masculine given name from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Greek and Ancient Greek.
Ancient Greek and GreekWritten in Greek script. In English: Demetrius.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Indo-European *-yós, built from Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ + -ιος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Δημήτριος’s family of names
In Greek usage, Δημήτριος has a diminutive in Δήμος. In Ancient Greek usage, Δημήτριος has a later derivative in Demetrius. In Greek usage, Δημήτριος has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form DEMETRIUSZ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Δημήτριος has relatives in 20 languages.
28 related names in 20 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 39
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Dimitriderivative · French
- Demetriusderivative · English, German
- Dmitriderivative · Portuguese
- Dimitriosequivalent
- Demetrioderivative · Spanish, Italian
- Dmitryequivalent
- Dimitryderivative · Portuguese
- Dmitriyequivalent
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- Demetrisequivalent
- Demetreequivalent
- Dimitrijeborrowing · Serbo-Croatian
- Dimitarborrowing · Serbo-Croatian
- Demeterequivalent
- Dimitrisequivalent
- ДмитрийRussian
- ДимитрийRussian
- Demetrijusderivative · Lithuanian
- Димитрииborrowing · cu
- 𐨡𐨁𐨨𐨅𐨟𐨿𐨪𐨁𐨀borrowing · pgd
- Дмитроderivative · Ukrainian
- Димитарborrowing · Macedonian
- ⲇⲏⲙⲏⲧⲣⲓⲟⲥderivative · Coptic
- Δημήτρηςdescendant · Greek
- Дзмітрыйderivative · Belarusian
- DemetriuszPolish
- Dumitruderivative · Romanian
- Dimitrderivative · zlw-ocs
- Démétriosborrowing · French
- Demétrioderivative · Portuguese
- Démétriusderivative · French
- Dimitrijequivalent
- Mitsosequivalent
- Τάκηςequivalent
- Takisequivalent
- Mimisequivalent
- Μίμηςequivalent
- Димитърequivalent
- Dimitrosequivalent
- Δημητρόςequivalent
People named Δημήτριος
- Demetrios VikelasGreek businessman and writer; president of the International Olympic Committee (1835-1908)
- Demetrius of PhalerumGreek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)349 BC–282 BC
- Demetrius I Poliorcetesking of Macedon336 BC–282 BC
- Demetrius I SoterRuler of Seleucid Empire from 162 to 150 BC186 BC–149 BC
- Demetrius II NicatorSeleucid king from 145 to 138 BC160 BC–124 BC
- Demetrius of ThessalonikiChristian martyr (died 306)300–306
- Demetrius III Eucaerusking of Syria150 BC–87 BC
- Demetrius I of Bactria2nd century BC Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek king300 BC–180 BC
- Demetrius II AetolicusKing of Macedonia268 BC–228 BC
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