Ἀριστοτέλης

See also: Αριστοτέλης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄριστος (áristos, “best, excellent”) +‎ τέλος (télos, “completion, perfection”) +‎ -ης (-ēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ris.to.té.lɛːs/ → /a.ris.toˈte.lis/ → /a.ris.toˈte.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ris.to.té.lɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ris.toˈte.le̝s/
• (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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Aristotle
2. 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: أَرِسْطُو (ʔarisṭū)
  • → Azerbaijani: Ərəstun
  • → Hebrew: אריסטו (aristo)
  • → Persian: ارسطو (arastu)
    • → Bihari: अरस्तू
    • → Gujarati: અરિસ્તૂ (aristū), અરસ્તુ (arastu)
    • → Hindustani:

      Hindi: अरस्तू (arastū)

      Urdu: ارسطو (arastu)

    • → Maithili: अरस्तु (arastʉ)
    • → Nepali: अरस्तू (arastū)
    • → Punjabi: ਅਰਸਤੂ (arastū)
  • → Swahili: Aristo
  • → Turkish: Aristo
• → Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܐܪܝܣܛܘܛܐܠܝܣ
• → 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)
• → Hungarian: Arisztotelész
• → Icelandic: Aristóteles
• → Indonesian: Aristoteles
• → Irish: Arastotail
• → Italian: Aristotele
• → Japanese: アリストテレス (Arisutoteresu)
• → Javanese: Aristoteles
• → Korean: 아리스토텔레스 (Ariseutotelleseu)
• → Northern Kurdish: Aristoteles
• → Ladino: Aristoteles
• → Latin: Aristoteles
• → Latvian: Aristotelis
• → Lithuanian: Aristotelis
• → Low German: Aristoteles
• → Luxembourgish: Aristoteles
• → Macedonian: Аристотел (Aristotel)
• → Malay: Aristotle
• → Maltese: Aristotile
• → Norwegian: Aristoteles
• → 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
• → Ukrainian: Арістотель (Aristotelʹ)
• → Welsh: Aristoteles
• → West Frisian: Aristoteles

Further reading

• Ἀριστοτέλης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002