Demetrius

This article is about a given name. For other uses, see Demetrius (disambiguation).

Demetrius
A statue of the goddess, Demeter
Pronunciation	Dem-EE-TRI-US
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/Name	Greek
Meaning	tribute to Goddess of Grain: Demeter, Mother-Earth
Other names
Related names	Demi, Demetria, Dimitris, Demetra

Demetrius, also spelled as Demetrios, Dimitrios, Demitri, and Dimitri (from Greek — Δημήτριος, Demetrios pertaining to Demeter),^[1][2] is a male given name.

Demetrius and its variations may refer to the following:

• Demetrius of Phalerum (c 350-280 BCE)
• Demetrius I of Macedon (337–283 BCE), called Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, King of Macedonia 294–288 BCE
• Demetrius II Aetolicus, son of Antigonus II, King of Macedonia 239–229 BCE
• Demetrius II Nicator (d. 125 BCE), son of Demetrius I Soter
• Demetrius III, Indo-Greek king c. 100 BCE
• Demetrius III Eucaerus (d. 88 BCE), son of Antiochus VIII Grypus, Seleucid King
• Demetrius of Thessaloniki (d. 306), Christian martyr and saint
• Demetrius Zvonimir (died 1089), King of Croatia 1075-1089
• Demetrius, a main character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Demetrius and the Gladiators, a 1954 film
• Demetri, a fictional character in the Twilight fantasy series
• Demetri Martin, American comedian
• Demitri Maximoff, a vampire from the Capcom video game series Darkstalkers
• Demetri McCamey, American basketball player
• Dimitrij, an opera by Antonín Dvořák
• Dmitri Mendeleev Russian chemist, creator of the first periodic table
• Dimitri Petrenko, a character in the first-person shooter Call of Duty: World at War
• Dmitri Shostakovich Russian composer

In other languages

• Albanian: Dhimitër, Mitro
• Belarusian: Зьміцер, Дзьмітры (Z'mitser, Dz'mitry)
• Bulgarian: Димитър (Dimitar)
• Croatian: Dmitar
• Dutch: Dimitri
• English: Dmitry
• Esperanto: Zmitro^{[citation needed]}
• Finnish: Mitri, Mitro, Dimitri
• French: Dimitri
• German: Demetrius
• Greek: Δημήτριος, Δημήτρης (Demétrios, Dimitris)
• Hebrew: (Dmitriy) דמיטרי ‎
• Hungarian: Dömötör
• Italian: Demetrio
• Macedonian: Димитар, Димитриja
• Norwegian: Deiomitry
• Polish: Dymitr, Demetriusz
• Portuguese: Demétrio
• Romanian: Dumitru, Dimitrie
• Russian: Дмитрий (Dmitriy)
• Serbian: Димитрије, (Dimitriye)
• Slovak: Demeter
• Slovene: Dimitrij, Mitja
• Spanish: Demetrio
• Ukrainian: Дмитро (Dmytro)

References

• Demetrius Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

1. ^ http://www.behindthename.com/name/demetrius
2. ^ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Demeter