Dorotheus
| Dorotheus | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Masculine |
| Language(s) | See list |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Greek |
| Meaning | God's gift |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | See list |
| Related names | |
Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek Dōrótheos (Δωρόθεος), meaning "God's Gift", from δῶρον (dōron), "gift" + θεός (theós), "god".[1] Its feminine counterpart is Dorothea, (Dorothy). Theodore means the same, with the root words in reverse order. The earliest form of the word δῶρον is the Mycenaean Greek do-ra, meaning "gifts", written in Linear B syllabic script;[2] the feminine form Theodora is also attested in Linear B as 𐀳𐀃𐀈𐀨, te-o-do-ra.[3]
Linguistical variants
- Greek: Dorotheos (Δωρόθεος)
- Latin: Dorotheus
- English: Dorotheus
- Russian: Dorofei (Дорофей)
- Serbian: Dorotej (Доротеј)
People
- Dorotheos (sculptor) (5th century BC), of Argos, to whom Kresilas was pupil
- Dorotheus of Sidon (fl. 75), Hellenistic astrologer
- Dorotheus of Tyre (ca. 255 – 362), Christian presbyter and later bishop of Tyre
- St. Dorotheus (martyr), who was martyred with Gorgonius and Peter in the 4th century
- Dorotheus of Antioch, (c. 388 – 407), Arian Archbishop of Constantinople
- Dorotheus (jurist) (fl. 534), Byzantine jurist who helped draft the Justinian Code
- Dorotheus of Gaza (505–565), monastic father
- Pope Peter IV of Alexandria, also known as Dorotheos (ruled in 565–569)
- Dorotheus of Hilandar (fl. 1356–1382), protos of Mount Athos
- Dorotheus I of Athens, metropolitan of Athens from 1388 to 1392
- Dorotheos II of Trebizond, metropolitan of Trebizond from 1472
- Dorotheos of Ohrid, 15th-century bishop
- Dorotheus IV Ibn Al-Ahmar (d. 1611), Patriarch of Antioch from 1604 to 1611.
- Dorotheus of Mount Sinai and Raithu, Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu
- Archbishop Dorotheus of Athens, Archbishop of All Greece 1956–1957
- Dorotheos of Adrianople
- Dorotheos the Younger
- Dorotheos Polykandriotis, Church of Greece
- Pseudo-Dorotheus, 3rd-century Christian writer
- Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia, 17th-century Greek chronicler
Other
- Dorotheus (weevil), a beetle genus in the tribe Cylydrorhinini
See also
- Dorothea (disambiguation), Greek female given name
- Dorothy, English variant
References
- ↑ δῶρον, θεός. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
- ↑ "The Linear B word do-ra". Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of ancient languages. Raymoure, K.A. "do-ra-qe". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.
- ↑ "te-o-do-ra-qe". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.
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