Εὐκλείδης

Ancient Greek

From Εὐκλῆς (Euklês) +‎ -ίδης (-ídēs, patronymic suffix).

Εὐκλείδης • (Eukleídēs) m (genitive Εὐκλείδου); first declension

a male given name, equivalent to English Euclid
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1458b
in particular, the mathematician Euclid

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Εὐκλείδης ho Eukleídēs
Genitive	τοῦ Εὐκλείδου toû Eukleídou
Dative	τῷ Εὐκλείδῃ tôi Eukleídēi
Accusative	τὸν Εὐκλείδην tòn Eukleídēn
Vocative	Εὐκλείδη Eukleídē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Greek: Ευκλείδης (Efkleídis)
→ Arabic: إِقْلِيدِس (ʔiqlīdis)
- → Persian: اقلیدس (oqlides)
  - → Hindi: उक़लैदिस (uqlaidis)
→ Latin: Euclides, Eucleides
- → English: Eucleides, Euclid (learned)
- → French: Euclide (learned)
- → Spanish: Euclides (learned)
→ Russian: Евклид (Jevklid), Эвклид (Evklid)

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010

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