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Line 1: [[File:Tétradrachme du royaume Lagide à l'effigie de Ptolémée.jpg\|thumb\|240x240px\|[[Tetradrachm]] of [[Ptolemy II Philadelphus]] with the [[Eagle of Zeus]]. Greek inscription reads ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ {{Lit\|[coin] of Ptolemy}}]] ~~'''Ptolemy''' is a name derived from Ancient Greek. Common variants include '''Ptolemaeus''' (Latin), '''Tolomeo''' (Italian) and [[Talmai]] (Hebrew).~~ '''Ptolemy''' ({{lang-grc\|Πτολεμαῖος}}, ''Ptolemaios'') is a male given name, derived from [[Ancient Greek]] and meaning 'warlike'.<ref>{{OEtymD\|Ptolemy}}</ref> It is formed from the [[Homeric Greek\|Epic Greek]] [[wikt:πτόλεμος\|πτόλεμος]] ''ptolemos'' meaning 'war'.<ref>{{LSJ\|pto/lemos\|πτόλεμος\|ref}}.</ref> The name was used throughout the [[Ancient Greece\|Greek world]], but was particularly popular in [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)\|ancient Macedon]] and its nobility. During the [[Hellenistic period\|Hellenistic]] period, [[Ptolemy I Soter]], a general of [[Alexander the Great]], founded the [[Ptolemaic dynasty]] which ruled their [[Ptolemaic Kingdom\|Kingdom]] in [[Ancient Egypt]]. All male rulers of the dynasty bore the name 'Ptolemy', the last being [[Ptolemy XII Auletes]], father of [[Cleopatra]]. Common variants include '''Ptolemaeus''' (Latin), '''Tolomeo''' (Italian) and [[Talmai]] (Hebrew). ==Etymology== '''Ptolemy''' is the English form of the [[Ancient Greek]] name [[wikt:Πτολεμαῖος\|Πτολεμαῖος]] (''Ptolemaios''), a derivative of [[wikt:πτόλεμος\|πτόλεμος]], an [[Homeric Greek\|Epic]] form of [[wikt:πόλεμος\|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 group="note">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) {{JSTOR\|40266932}}.</ref> and the suffix [[wikt:-αῖος\|-αῖος]] ''-aios'' meaning 'pertaining' or 'belonging to'. 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>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.%20Il.%204.228&lang=original Homer, ''Iliad'', 4.228], on Perseus</ref> The name ''Ptolemaios'' varied over the years from its roots in [[ancient Greece]], appearing in different languages in various forms and spellings: Line 90 ⟶ 91: ''[[Ptolemaic Terrascope]]'' is a magazine founded in 1989. The name was inspired by "Ptolemy the turtle, who lives at Terrascope Towers". Various artworks and logos feature an astronomer peering through a 'terrascope', so Ptolemaic may here refer to [[Claudius Ptolemaeus]] ''The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey'' is a novel by [[Walter Mosley]], later adapted into [[The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey\|a miniseries of the same name]], whose titular character is a lonely 93-year-old man with dementia. "''Ptolemy"'', a track by Aphex Twin from the 1992 album ''[[Selected Ambient Works 85–92]]'' * ''Ptolemaea'', a song by [[Ethel Cain]] from her debut album [[Preacher's Daughter]] ==See also== Line 97 ⟶ 99: *[[Tolomeo (disambiguation)]] == ~~References~~Footnotes == {{reflist\|group="note"}} <references/> {{given name}} [[Category:Etymologies]]