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 words in reverse order. The earliest form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek do-ra, meaning "gifts", written in Linear B 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.
People Dorotheos (sculptor) (5th century BC), of Argos, to whom Kresilas was pupil Dorotheus of Sidon (fl. 75), Hellenistic astrologer Dorotheus of Tyre (ca. 255 – 362), Christian presbyter and later bishop of Tyre St. Dorotheus (martyr), who was martyred with Gorgonius and Peter in the 4th century Dorotheus (poet) (fl. 4th-century), Christian poet, known for The Vision of Dorotheus. Dorotheus of Antioch, (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 (fl. 1356–1382), protos of Mount Athos Dorotheus I of Athens, metropolitan of Athens from 1388 to 1392 Dorotheos II of Trebizond, metropolitan of Trebizond from 1472 Dorotheos of Ohrid, 15th-century bishop Dorotheus IV Ibn Al-Ahmar (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, Archbishop of All Greece 1956–1957 Dorotheos of Adrianople Dorotheos the Younger Dorotheos Polykandriotis, Church of Greece Pseudo-Dorotheus, 3rd-century Christian writer Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia, 17th-century Greek chronicler Dorotheus (magister militum), Byzantine military leader
See also Dorothea (disambiguation), Greek female given name Dorothy, English variant Dorotheus (weevil), a beetle genus in the tribe Cylydrorhinini
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