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==Etymology==
'''Ptolemy''' is the English form of the [[Ancient Greek]] name Πτολεμαῖος (''Ptolemaios''), a derivative of πτόλεμος, an Epic form of πόλεμος 'war'.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpo%2Flemos πόλεμος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref><ref>The change from ''polemos'' to ''ptolemos'' is an example of a type of linguistic compounding called [[terpsimbrotos]]. The ''pt-'' in ''ptolemos'' (vs. earlier ''polemos'') "war" is thought to arise from a re-analysis of the compound word ''*phere-t-polemos'', metathesised to ''phere-ptolemos''. '''George Dunkel''', "Two old problems in Greek: πτόλεμος and τερψίμβροτος", ''Glotta'' '''70''':3/4:197-225 (1992) {{
The name ''Ptolemaios'' varied over the years from its roots in [[ancient Greece]], appearing in different languages in various forms and spellings:
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