Dimitri
Dimitri ( Dimitrij, Dimitry , Russian Димитрий ) is a male given name , which is derived from the Greek name Dimitrios (Δημήτριος, in ancient pronunciation Demetrios ) and is common in Russian next to the form Dmitri .
Word origin
The name refers to Demeter ( ancient Greek Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr , Greek Δήμητρα , Dímitra ), the goddess of fertility. Its etymology is not entirely clear; the second part μήτηρ mḗtēr certainly means “mother”, but the part De- is more difficult to explain. The most widespread is the derivation from the Greek γῆ gḗ "earth", where Δῆ Dḗ would be a phonetic variant of the proven Doric δᾶ dá "earth".
Accordingly, the name means "mother earth".
First name
- Dimitrij von Brunnow (1753–1803), Russian major general
- Dimitri Bunzmann (* 1982), German chess player
- Dimitri Champion (* 1983), French road cyclist
- Dimitri Diatchenko (1968–2020), American actor and musician
- Dimitri De Fauw (1981-2009), Belgian racing cyclist
- Dimitri Hegemann (* 1954), German cultural manager
- Dimitry Imbongo (* 1990), French-Congolese football player
- Dimitrij Kotschnew (* 1981), German ice hockey goalie
- Dimitry McDuffie (* 1989), German basketball player
- Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896–1960), Greek conductor, composer and pianist
- Dimitrij Ovtcharov (* 1988), German table tennis player
- Dimitri Pätzold (* 1983), German ice hockey goalkeeper
- Dimitri Payet (* 1987), French football player
- Dimitri Reinderman (* 1972), Dutch chess grandmaster
- Dimitri von Rostow (1651–1709), from 1702 to 1709 Metropolitan in Rostov
- Dimitri Terzakis (* 1938), German-Greek composer
- Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979), Russian / Ukrainian-American film composer and conductor
- Dimitri Chpakov , German rapper.
family name
- David Dimitri (* 1963), Swiss tightrope walker
- Masha Dimitri , Swiss acrobat
- Nina Dimitri , Swiss singer and actress
stage name
- Dimitri (clown) (real name Dimitri Jakob Müller ; 1935–2016), Swiss clown
- Dimitri From Paris (bourgeois Dimitris Yerasimos ; * 1963), house DJ of Greek descent
- Dimitri Vegas (real name Dimitrios Thivaios ; * 1982), house DJ of Greek descent
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Henry George Liddell , Robert Scott : A Greek-English Lexicon . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1940, sv δᾶ ( online ).