Given name
Doroteja
“gift”·“god”
Doroteja is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latvian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Doroteja is built from elements meaning “gift” and “god”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Doroteja developed from Δωροθέα.
Doroteja’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Doroteja shares a linguistic root with the English form Dorothy. In Latvian usage, Doroteja has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Dorota. In Latvian usage, Doroteja has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dorothy.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Dorothycognate · English
- Dorotheaequivalent
- Deaequivalent
- Daceequivalent
- Dortheaequivalent
- Dorotheeequivalent
- Doroteaequivalent
- DorotaPolish
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