Ἀνδρέας

See also: Ανδρέας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly, courageous”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.dré.aːs/ → /anˈdre.as/ → /anˈdre.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.dré.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.as/

Proper noun

Ἀνδρέᾱς • (Andréās) m (genitive Ἀνδρέου); first declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Andrew
   1. Andrew, one of Jesus' twelve disciples.

Declension

First declension of ὁ Ἀνδρέᾱς; τοῦ Ἀνδρέου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀνδρέᾱς ho Andréās
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀνδρέου toû Andréou
Dative	τῷ Ἀνδρέᾳ tôi Andréāi
Accusative	τὸν Ἀνδρέᾱν tòn Andréān
Vocative	Ἀνδρέᾱ Andréā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Albanian: Ndreu
• Arabic: أندراوس
• Armenian: Անդրեաս (Andreas)
• Basque: Ander
• Bulgarian: Андрей (Andrej)
• Catalan: Andreu
• Coptic: ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ (andreas)
• Czech: Ondřej (saint); Andrej (name)
• Danish: Andreas
• Dutch: Andreas, Andries, Dries
• English: Andrew; Andy; Drew
• Estonian: Andreas
• Finnish: Andreas (saint); Antero (name)
• French: André
• Georgian: ანდრია (andria)
• German: Andreas
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌰𐍃 (andraias)
• Greek: Ανδρέας (Andréas), Ανδριάς (Andriás)
• Hungarian: András
• Icelandic: Andreas

• Indonesian: Andreas
• Irish: Aindriú
• Italian: Andrea
• Japanese: アンデレ (​Andere)
• Korean: 안드레아 (andeurea)
• Latin: Andreas
• Lithuanian: Andrejus
• Norwegian: Andreas
• Polish: Andrzej
• Portuguese: André
• Romanian: Andrei
• Russian: Андрей (Andrej)
• Scots: Andra
• Serbo-Croatian: Андреј, Àndrej, Andrija
• Slovak: Ondrej (saint); Andrej (name)
• Slovene: Andrej
• Spanish: Andrés
• Swedish: Anders, Andreas
• Ukrainian: Андрій (Andrij)
• Venetian: Andrea
• Wolof: Andare

Further reading

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Ἀνδρέας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G406 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[1], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN