Ἀνδρέας

See also: Ανδρέας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly, courageous”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.dré.aːs/ → /anˈdre.as/ → /anˈdre.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.dré.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/

Proper noun

Ἀνδρέᾱς • (Andréās) m (genitive Ἀνδρέου); first declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Andrew
   1. Andrew, one of Jesus' twelve disciples.

Declension

First declension of ὁ Ἀνδρέᾱς; τοῦ Ἀνδρέου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀνδρέᾱς ho Andréās
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀνδρέου toû Andréou
Dative	τῷ Ἀνδρέᾳ tôi Andréāi
Accusative	τὸν Ἀνδρέᾱν tòn Andréān
Vocative	Ἀνδρέᾱ Andréā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Aghwan: 𐔰𐕎𐔳𐕙𐔶𐔰𐕚 (andrēas)
• → Albanian: Ndreu
• → Amharic: እንድሪያስ (ʾəndəriyas)
• → Arabic: أندراوس
• → Armenian: Անդրեաս (Andreas)
• → Basque: Ander
• → Bulgarian: Андрей (Andrej)
• → Catalan: Andreu
• → Classical Syriac: ܐܰܢܕܪܶܐܘܳܣ
  • → Malayalam: അന്ത്രയോസ് (antrayōsŭ)
• → Coptic: ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ (andreas)
• → Czech: Ondřej (saint); Andrej (name)
• → Danish: Andreas
• → Dutch: Andreas, Andries, Dries
• → English: Andrew; Andy; Drew
• → Estonian: Andreas
• → Finnish: Andreas (saint); Antero (name)
• → French: André
• → Galician: André
• → Georgian: ანდრია (andria)
• → German: Andreas
• → Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌰𐍃 (andraias)
• Greek: Αντρέας (Antréas), Ανδρέας (Andréas)
• → Hungarian: András
• → Icelandic: Andrés, Andreas
• → Indonesian: Andreas
• → Irish: Aindrias (saint), Aindriú (given name, via English)
• → Italian: Andrea
  • Sicilian: Antrea
• → Japanese: アンデレ (​Andere)
• → Korean: 안드레아 (andeurea)
• → Latin: Andreas
• → Lithuanian: Andrejus
• → Norwegian: Andreas
• → Polish: Andrzej
• → Portuguese: André
• → Romanian: Andrei
• → Russian: Андрей (Andrej)
• → Scots: Andra
• → Serbo-Croatian: Андреј, Àndrej, Андрија, Andrija
• → Slovak: Ondrej (saint); Andrej (name)
• → Sicilian: Annirìa, Nirìa
• → Slovene: Andrej
• → Spanish: Andrés
• → Swedish: Anders, Andreas
• → Ukrainian: Андрій (Andrij)
• → Venetan: Andrea
• → Welsh: Andreas
• → Wolof: Andare

Further reading

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Ἀνδρέας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G406 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[1], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN