Ἀριστοτέλης

See also: Αριστοτέλης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄριστος (áristos, “excellent, best”) +‎ τέλος (télos, “purpose”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ris.to.té.lɛːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈtɛ.les/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈte.lis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈte.lis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈte.lis/

Proper noun

Ἀριστοτέλης • (Aristotélēs) m (genitive Ἀριστοτέλους); third declension

A male given name: Aristotle
in particular, the 4th century BCE philosopher Aristotle

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ἀριστοτέλης; τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀριστοτέλης ho Aristotélēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους toû Aristotélous
Dative	τῷ Ἀριστοτέλει tôi Aristotélei
Accusative	τὸν Ἀριστοτέλη tòn Aristotélē
Vocative	Ἀριστότελες Aristóteles
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

Albanian: Aristoteli
Arabic: أرسطو‎ (ʼAristō)
Armenian: Արիստոտել (Aristotel)
Asturian: Aristóteles
Azerbaijani: Aristotel
Basque: Aristotele
Belarusian: Арыстоцель (Arystócjelʹ)
Breton: Aristoteles
Bulgarian: Аристотел (Aristotel)
Catalan: Aristòtil
Czech: Aristotelés
Danish: Aristoteles
Dutch: Aristoteles
English: Aristotle
Estonian: Aristoteles
Finnish: Aristoteles
French: Aristote
Galician: Aristóteles
Georgian: არისტოტელე (arisṭoṭele)
German: Aristoteles
Greek: Αριστοτέλης (Aristotélis)
Hebrew: אריסטו‎ (Aristo)
Hungarian: Arisztotelész
Icelandic: Aristóteles
Indonesian: Aristoteles
Irish: Arastotail
Italian: Aristotele
Japanese: アリストテレス (Arisutoteresu)
Javanese: Aristoteles
Korean: 아리스토텔레스 (Ariseutotelleseu)

Kurdish: Aristoteles
Ladino: Aristoteles
Latin: Aristoteles
Latvian: Aristotelis
Lithuanian: Aristotelis
Low German: Aristoteles
Luxembourgish: Aristoteles
Macedonian: Аристотел (Aristotel)
Malay: Aristotle
Maltese: Aristotile
Norwegian: Aristoteles
Persian: ارسطو‎ (Arastu)
Polish: Arystoteles
Portuguese: Aristóteles
Romanian: Aristotel
Russian: Аристотель (Aristotelʹ)
Scots: Aristotle
Scottish Gaelic: Arasdotal
Serbo-Croatian: Аристотел, Aristotel
Sicilian: Aristòtili
Slovak: Aristoteles
Slovene: Aristotel
Spanish: Aristóteles
Swedish: Aristoteles
Tagalog: Aristoteles
Turkish: Aristo
Ukrainian: Арістотель (Aristotelʹ)
Urdu: ارسطو‎
Welsh: Aristoteles
West Frisian: Aristoteles

Further reading

Ἀριστοτέλης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
Ἀριστοτέλης in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002

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