Given name & surname · Ancient Greek · Greek
Θουκυδίδης
“ruler, god”·“glory”
Θουκυδίδης (Thoukūdĭ́dēs) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Ancient Greek.
Ancient Greek and GreekWritten in Greek script. In English: Thucydides.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Θουκυδίδης is built from elements meaning “ruler, god” and “glory”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek -ῐ́ς, from Ancient Greek -ῐς, built from Ancient Greek θεός (“ruler, god”) + κῦδος (“glory”) + -ῐ́δης.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Θουκυδίδης’s family of names
In Ancient Greek usage, Θουκυδίδης has a later derivative in Tucídides. In Ancient Greek usage, Θουκυδίδης has a transliteration in Thoukudídēs. In Greek usage, Θουκυδίδης has a conventional equivalent in the French form Thucydide.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Θουκυδίδης has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Θουκυδίδης comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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