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Asclepiades
Asclepiades is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in English and Latin.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Asclepiades comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Asclepiades developed from Ἀσκληπιάδης.
Asclepiades’s family of names
In English usage, Asclepiades developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀσκληπιάδης. In English usage, Asclepiades has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Asclepiade. In English usage, Asclepiades has a conventional equivalent in the French form Asclépiade.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Asclepiades has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Asclepiades comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Asclepiades
- Asclepiades of Samosancient Greek writer319 BC–300 BC
- Asclepiades of Bithyniaancient Greek physician119 BC–39 BC
- Asclepiades of Phliusancient Greek philosopher349 BC–269 BC
- Asclepiades of Myrleaancient Greek philologist150 BC–100 BC
- Asclepiades of Tragilusancient Greek mythographer400 BC–360 BC
- Asclepiades of AntiochPatriarch of Antioch from 211 to 217200–217
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