Δημήτριος

From Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr, “Demeter”) +‎ -ιος (-ios).

Δημήτριος • (Dēmḗtrios) m (genitive Δημητρίου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Demetrius

• Δημητριάς (Dēmētriás)

• > Greek: Δημήτρης (Dimítris) (inherited)
• → Greek: Δημήτριος (Dimítrios) (learned)
• → Albanian: Dhimitër
• → Bulgarian: Димитър (Dimitǎr)
• → French: Démétrios
• → Latin: Demetrius
  • → English: Demetrius
  • → French: Démétrius
  • → Aromanian: Mitru
  • → Hungarian: Demeter, Dömötör
  • → Italian: Demetrio
  • → Old Czech: Dimitr, Dmitr
  • → Polish: Demetriusz
  • → Portuguese: Demétrio
  • → Spanish: Demetrio
• → Macedonian: Димитар (Dimitar), Димитриј (Dimitrij)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: Димитрије

  Latin script: Dimitrije

• → Slovene: Dimitrij
• → Old Church Slavonic: Дмитреі (Dmitrei)
  • → Belarusian: Зьміцер (Zʹmicjer)
  • → Polish: Dymitr
  • → Romanian: Dumitru
  • → Russian: Дмитрий (Dmitrij)
    • ⇒ Russian: Митя (Mitja) (diminutive)
      • → Slovene: Mitja
      • → Slovene: Mitja
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: Дмитар

    Latin script: Dmitar

  • → Ukrainian: Дмитро́ (Dmytró)

• Δημήτριος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “Δημήτριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Δημήτριος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1216 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios). Compare to the inherited demotic form Δημήτρης (Dimítris).

• IPA^(key): /ðiˈmi.tɾ.ios/
• Hyphenation: Δη‧μή‧τρι‧ος

Δημήτριος • (Dimítrios) m (plural Δημήτριοι) feminine: Δήμητρα (Dímitra)

1. (dated, formal) a male given name, Demetrius, equivalent to English Dimitri (formal as in identity cards and passports)
2. A saint whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 26 October.

   Alternative form: αϊ-Δημήτρης (aï-Dimítris) (infomal)

• (informal form) Δημήτρης m (Dimítris)
• (pet forms) Δήμος m (Dímos), Μήτρος m (Mítros), Μήτσος m (Mítsos), Μίμης m (Mímis)
• (feminine form) Δήμητρα f (Dímitra)
• Δημήτρια n pl (Dimítria, “name of festival at Thessaloniki”)
• αγιοδημητριάτικος (agiodimitriátikos) / αϊδημητριάτικος (aïdimitriátikos)
• δημητριακός (dimitriakós, adjective) & δημητριακά n pl (dimitriaká, “cereals”)