Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek ''Dōrótheos'' (), meaning "God's Gift", from (''dōron''), "gift" + (''theós''), "god". Its feminine counterpart is ''Dorothea'', (''Dorothy'').

Theodore Theodore may refer to: Places * Theodore, Alabama, United States * Theodore, Australian Capital Territory * Theodore, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Banana, Australia * Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada * Theodore Reservoir, a lake in Sask ...

means the same, with the root words in reverse order. The earliest form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek ''do-ra'', meaning "gifts", written in

Linear B Linear B was a syllabic script used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1400 BC. It is descended from ...

syllabic script; the feminine form '' Theodora'' is also attested in Linear B as , ''te-o-do-ra''.

Linguistic variants

*Greek: ''Dorotheos'' (Δωρόθεος) *Latin: ''Dorotheus'' *English: ''Dorotheus'' *Russian: ''Dorofei'' (Дорофей) *Serbian: ''Dorotej'' (Доротеј) *Czech: ''Dorota'', ''Dora'' fem.

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Dorotheos (sculptor) Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek ''Dōrótheos'' (), meaning "God's Gift", from (''dōron''), "gift" + (''theós''), "god". Its feminine counterpart is ''Dorothea'', (''Dorothy''). Theodore means the same, with the root wor ...

(5th century BC), of Argos, to whom

Kresilas Kresilas ( gr, Κρησίλας ''Krēsílas''; c. 480 – c. 410 BC) was a Greek sculptor in the Classical period (5th century BC), from Kydonia. He was trained in Argos and then worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War, as a follow ...

was pupil *

Dorotheus of Sidon Dorotheus of Sidon ( grc-gre, Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, c. 75 CE - ?? CE) was a 1st-century Greek astrologer and astrological poet, who, during the Hellenistic Period, wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology in Greek, known as the ' ...

(

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

75), Hellenistic astrologer * Dorotheus of Tyre (ca. 255 – 362), Christian presbyter and later bishop of Tyre * St.

Dorotheus (martyr) Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek ''Dōrótheos'' (), meaning "God's Gift", from (''dōron''), "gift" + (''theós''), "god". Its feminine counterpart is ''Dorothea'', (''Dorothy''). Theodore means the same, with the root word ...

, who was martyred with Gorgonius and Peter in the 4th century *

Dorotheus (poet) ''The Vision of Dorotheus'' or ''Dorotheos'' ( grc, Όρασις Δωροθέου, Órasis Dorothéou) is an autobiographical Homeric Greek poem, composed in 343 lines of dactylic hexameter and attributed to "Dorotheus, son of Quintus the Poet". ...

(fl. 4th-century), Christian poet, known for ''

The Vision of Dorotheus ''The Vision of Dorotheus'' or ''Dorotheos'' ( grc, Όρασις Δωροθέου, Órasis Dorothéou) is an autobiographical Homeric Greek poem, composed in 343 lines of dactylic hexameter and attributed to "Dorotheus, son of Quintus the Poet". ...

''. *

Dorotheus of Antioch Dorotheus ( el, Δωρόθεος)Socrates Scholasticus, ''Church History'', Book 7.6. Dorotheus was reputed to have lived to the age of 119. was Arian Archbishop of Constantinople from c. 388 until his death in 407. Preceding his elevation to the s ...

, (c. 388 – 407), Arian Archbishop of Constantinople * Dorotheus (jurist) (fl. 534), Byzantine jurist who helped draft the Justinian Code * Dorotheus of Gaza (505–565), monastic father * Pope Peter IV of Alexandria, also known as Dorotheos (ruled in 565–569) *

Dorotheus of Hilandar Dorotej or Dorotheus ( sr-cyr, Доротеј) was a Serbian Orthodox abbot of Hilandar and the ''protos'' of Mount Athos from 1356 until 1366. He is noted for writing a charter for the monastery of Drenča in 1382. Life Drenča The village of Dr ...

(fl. 1356–1382), protos of Mount Athos * Dorotheus I of Athens, metropolitan of Athens from 1388 to 1392 *

Dorotheos II of Trebizond Dorotheos II ( el, Δωρόθεος Βʹ) was the second metropolitan bishop of Trebizond under Ottoman rule. His tenure began in 1472. The origin of Dorotheos is unclear, nor is anything about his early life known except that prior to his appoin ...

, metropolitan of Trebizond from 1472 * Dorotheos of Ohrid, 15th-century bishop *

Dorotheus IV Ibn Al-Ahmar Patriarch Dorotheus IV Ibn Al-Ahmar (died 1611), sometime known also as Dorotheus V,He is known as ''Dorotheus IV'' in the patriarchal lists of Korolevski and Skaff, as ''Dorotheus V'' in the list of Costantius. was Melkite Patriarch of Antioch f ...

(d. 1611), Patriarch of Antioch from 1604 to 1611. * Dorotheus of Mount Sinai and Raithu, Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu * Archbishop

Dorotheus of Athens Dorotheus ( el, Δωρόθεος, secular name Ioannis Kottaras el, Ιωάννης Κοτταράς) was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1956 to 1957. He was born in Hydra in 1888 and studied theology at the University of Athens, from ...

, Archbishop of All Greece 1956–1957 * Dorotheos of Adrianople * Dorotheos the Younger * Dorotheos Polykandriotis, Church of Greece *

Pseudo-Dorotheus A number of late 3rd-century Christian works are pseudepigraphically attributed to Dorotheus of Tyre. These works describe the lives of the Apostles and their disciples, including tradition about Barnabas living in Rome , established_title ...

, 3rd-century Christian writer *

Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia ( el, Δωρόθεος Μονεμβασίας) is the name given to the unknown author (or compiler) of a Greek-language chronicle titled ''Historical Book'' (Βιβλίον Ιστορικόν), published at Venice ...

, 17th-century Greek chronicler * Dorotheus (magister militum), Byzantine military leader

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{{given name Greek masculine given names

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