Tiberius

English

Etymology

From Latin Tiberius, literally 'Of the Tiber', from Tiberis, the river Tiber. Also note Faliscan equivalent *Tiferios. The name is mistaken by some to be of Etruscan origin but note the borrowed variants, Thefarie (from Faliscan) and Teperi (from Latin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɪˈbɪəɹ.i.əs/, /tɪˈbɛɹiʊs/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəs

Proper noun

Tiberius (plural Tiberiuses)

1. (historical) A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use, in particular, the praenomen of the second Roman emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, reigning 14-37 C.E..
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 3:1:

     Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,

Related terms

• Tiberian, Tiberias

Translations

given name

• Afrikaans: Tiberius
• Arabic: تيبيريوس m

  Egyptian Arabic: تيبيريوس m

• Aragonese: Tiberio
• Armenian: Տիբերիոս (Tiberios)
• Asturian: Tiberiu
• Azerbaijani: Tiberi
• Basque: Tiberio
• Belarusian: Тыбе́рый m (Tybjéryj)
• Bulgarian: Тиберий m (Tiberij)
• Catalan: Tiberi
• Coptic: ⲧⲓⲃⲉⲣⲓⲟⲥ (tiberios)
• Czech: Tiberius (cs) m
• Danish: Tiberius
• Dutch: Tiberius m
• Esperanto: Tiberio
• Estonian: Tiberius (et)
• Faroese: Tiberius
• Franco-Provençal: Tibéro, Tibério
• French: Tibère (fr)
• Galician: Tiberio (gl)
• Georgian: ტიბერიუსი (ṭiberiusi)
• German: Tiberius (de) m
• Greek: Τιβέριος (el) m (Tivérios)

  Ancient: Τιβέριος (Tibérios)

• Hebrew: טיבריוס m
• Hungarian: Tibor (hu), Tiberius
• Ido: Tiberius
• Indonesian: Tiberius
• Interlingua: Tiberio
• Irish: Tiberius
• Italian: Tiberio (it) m
• Kongo: Tiberius
• Korean: 티베리우스 (Tiberiuseu)
• Lao: ໄທບີຣຽສ (thai bī rīat)
• Latin: Tiberius (la) m
• Latvian: Tiberijs
• Ligurian: Tibeio
• Lithuanian: Tiberijus
• Macedonian: Тибериј m (Tiberij)
• Malagasy: Tiberio
• Mingrelian: ტიბერიუსი (ṭiberiusi)
• Mongolian: Тибериус (Tiberius)
• North Frisian: Tiberius
• Norwegian: Tiberius

  Nynorsk: Tiberius

• Occitan: Tibèri
• Persian: تیبریوس
• Piedmontese: Tiberi
• Polish: Tyberiusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tibério m
• Romanian: Tiberiu m
• Russian: Тибе́рий (ru) m (Tibérij)
• Serbo-Croatian: Tiberije
• Sicilian: Tibberiu
• Slovak: Tiberius m
• Spanish: Tiberio m
• Swahili: Tiberius
• Turkish: Tiberius
• Ukrainian: Тибе́рій m (Tybérij)
• Urdu: تیبیریس m (teberes)
• Venetian: Tiberio m
• Vietnamese: Tiberius
• Waray-Waray: Tiberius
• Welsh: Tiberius
• West Frisian: Tibearius
• Yoruba: Tiberius

Anagrams

• Beirutis

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ti. (praenominal abbreviation)

Etymology

From Tiberis (“Tiber river”) +‎ -ius (“relative adjective marker”). C.f. Etruscan 𐌈𐌄𐌚𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌄 (θefarie), presumably borrowed from Faliscan *Tiferio(s).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.us/, [t̪ɪˈbɛriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.us/, [t̪iˈbɛːrius]

Proper noun

Tiberius m (genitive Tiberiī or Tiberī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen, famously held by:

   Tiberius Caesar Augustus (42 B.C.E.–37 C.E.), second Emperor of the Roman Empire, reigning 14–37 C.E.

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Luke 3.1:

     Anno autem quintodecimo imperii Tiberii Cæsaris, procurante Pontio Pilato Judæam, tetrarcha autem Galiææ Herode, Philippo autem fratre ejus tetrarcha Iturææ, et Trachonitidis regionis, et Lysania Abilinæ tetrarcha, sub principibus sacerdotum Anna et Caipha : factum est verbum Domini super Joannem, Zachariæ filium, in deserto.

     Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea, and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina; under the high priests Annas and Caiphas; the word of the Lord was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert.

2. (history) A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Emperors of the Byzantine Roman Empire Tiberius II Constantinus (r. 574–582 C.E.) and Tiberius III (r. 698–705 C.E.)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Tiberius	Tiberiī
Genitive	Tiberiī Tiberī1	Tiberiōrum
Dative	Tiberiō	Tiberiīs
Accusative	Tiberium	Tiberiōs
Ablative	Tiberiō	Tiberiīs
Vocative	Tiberī	Tiberiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Tibereus
• Tiberiolus
• Tiberiānus
• Tiberēius

 

Descendants

Descendants of Tiberius in other languages

• → Basque: Tiberio
• → Belarusian: Тыбе́рый (Tybjéryj)
• → Catalan: Tiberi
• → Dutch: Tiberius
• → English: Tiberius
• → Esperanto: Tiberio
• → West Frisian: Tibearius
• → French: Tibère
• → Galician: Tiberio
• → German: Tiberius
• → Koine Greek: Τιβέριος (Tibérios)
  • → Greek: Τιβέριος (Tivérios)
• → Irish: Tibir
• → Italian: Tiberio
• → Ligurian: Tibeio
• → Latvian: Tiberijs
• → Lithuanian: Tiberijus
• → Occitan: Tibèri
• → Piedmontese: Tiberi
• → Polish: Tyberiusz
• → Portuguese: Tibério
• → Romanian: Tiberiu
• → Russian: Тибе́рий (Tibérij)
• → Sicilian: Tibberiu
• → Spanish: Tiberio
• → Ukrainian: Тибе́рій (Tybérij)

Further reading

• “Tĭbĕrĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tiberius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1574.
• Tiberius in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3121
• “Tiberius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers