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Матей
Матей (Matej) is a masculine given name from Serbo-Croatian, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Bulgarian and Pannonian Rusyn.
Bulgarian and Ukrainian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Matej.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Матей comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Матей developed from MATTHAEUS. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Матей developed from Ματθαῖος.
Матей’s family of names
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Матей developed from the Latin form MATTHAEUS. In Ukrainian usage, Матей has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Mateusz. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Матей can be written in the Roman alphabet as MATEJ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Матей has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Матей comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Матей
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