The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΠτολεμαῖος
- English todayPtolemy
From Ancient Greek Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemaîos).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ptolemy
Today it means: Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90 – c. 168 AD), a Greek-speaking mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived in the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria in Roman Egypt. His most important works were the Almagest and the Geography Full definition →
Ancient Greek Πτολεμαῖος