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Дмитро
Дмитро (Dmytró) is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Ukrainian.
Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Dzmitry.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Дмитро comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Дмитро developed from Δημήτριος.
Дмитро’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Дмитро has a diminutive in Димко. In Ukrainian usage, Дмитро developed from the Ancient Greek form Δημήτριος. In Ukrainian usage, Дмитро was borrowed from the Latin form Demetrius.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Дмитро has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Дмитро comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Demetriussource · Latin
- Demetriequivalent
- Dmitryequivalent
- ДмитрийRussian
- DemetriuszPolish
- DzmitryEnglish
- Dymitrequivalent
- Дмитро́has masculine form
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People named Дмитро
- Dmytro KulebaUkrainian diplomat and politician (born 1981)
- Dmytro ChyhrynskyiUkrainian association football playerborn 1986
- Dmytro YaroshUkrainian political activist, public figureborn 1971
- Dmitri Ivanenkophysicist1904–1994
- Dmytro PavlychkoUkrainian writer, diplomat and dissident1929–2023
- Dmytro RazumkovUkrainian politicianborn 1983
- Dmitry ManuilskySoviet politician (1883–1959)
- Dmitry GordonUkrainian journalist and writerborn 1967
- Dmytro PidruchnyiUkrainian biathleteborn 1991
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