Demetrius
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This article is about a given name. For other uses, see Demetrius (disambiguation).
| Demetri | |
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 A statue of the goddess Demetri |
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| Pronunciation | Dem-EE-TRI-US |
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/Name | Greek |
| Meaning | tribute to Goddess of Grain: Demeter, Mother-Earth |
| Region of origin | Married To Mohini |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Demi, Demetria, Dimitris, Demetra |
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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
[edit] 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)
