Aristotle

Gender Masculine
Scripts Pron. /ˈæɹ.ɪ.ˌstɑt.əl/ (American English) /ˈæɹ.ɪ.ˌstɒt.əl/ (British English) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

From the Greek name , derived from aristos) meaning "best" and telos) meaning "purpose, result, completion" [1] [2] [3] . This was the name of a Greek philosopher of the 4th century BC who made lasting contributions to Western thought, including the fields of logic, metaphysics, ethics and biology.

Related Names

Rootsaristos + telos
VariantAristoteles
Other Languages & CulturesAristotelis, Aris (Greek) Arastoo (Persian)

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  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Ἀριστοτέλης.
  2. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry a)/ristos, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Da%29%2Fristos.
  3. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry te/los, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dte%2Flos.

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