Given name · also Latin
Timóteo
“to honour”·“god”
Timóteo is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Timóteo is built from elements meaning “to honour” and “god”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Timóteo comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Timotheus, from Ancient Greek Τῑμόθεος, built from Ancient Greek τῑμάω (“to honour”) + θεός (“god”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Timóteo’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Timóteo has a conventional equivalent in the English form Timothy. In Portuguese usage, Timóteo has a conventional equivalent in the German form Timotheus. In Portuguese usage, Timóteo has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Tymoteusz.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Timóteo has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Timóteo comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
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.
- TimothyEnglish
- Timofeyequivalent
- Tymofiiequivalent
- TymoteuszPolish
- TimotheusGerman
- Timoteusequivalent
- Timothéeequivalent
- Тимофійequivalent
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