Ptolemy (name): Difference between revisions

According to [[Georg Autenrieth]], the English name '''Ptolemy''' comes from the [[Ancient Greek]] name Πτολεμαῖος (''Ptolemaios''),<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0073%3Aentry%3D*ptolemai%3Dos Πτολεμαῖος]. The meaning of the name Ptolemy seem to be a matter of strife; in accordance with Georg Autenrieth, ''A Homeric Dictionary'', on Perseus</ref> "warlike" or "son of war". Autienrieth renders the meaning of the name to be an adjective from πτόλεμος (''ptólemos''), explained as a [[Homeric Greek]] form of πόλεμος (''pólemos''), "war".<ref>[http://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: ptolemos and terpsimbrotos", ''Glotta'' '''70''' (1992).</ref> A nephew of [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus]] was called ''Polemaeus'',<ref>Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great [https://books.google.com/books?id=JJ4K1wFZkrsC&pg=PA57&dq=Polemaeus&sig=pKlfRfbLZ3pD1N0RijnvK20miJ8] by Waldemar Heckel</ref> the normal form of the adjective. ''Ptolemaios'' is first attested in [[Homer]]'s [[Iliad]] and is the name of an [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaean]] warrior, son of Piraeus, father of Eurymedon.<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.%20Il.%204.228&lang=original Homer, ''Iliad'', 4.228], on Perseus</ref>

 

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* {{lang-fa|بَطلَمیوس، پتُلِمَیوس}} ''Baṭlamīūs/ Ptolemaios''

* {{lang-ar|بَطُلِيمُوس }} ''Baṭulīmūs''

The name ''Ptolemy'' spread from its Greek origins to enter other languages in [[Western Asia]] during the [[Hellenistic period|Hellenisation]] that followed the conquest of the known world by [[Alexander the Great]].