Ptolemy
pronunciation
How to pronounce Ptolemy in British English:
UK ['tɒlɪmɪ]
How to pronounce Ptolemy in American English:
US ['tɑləmɪ]
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- Noun:
- Alexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD)
- an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra
Word Origin
- Ptolemy
- ancient masc. proper name, from Greek Ptolemaios, literally "warlike," from ptolemos, collateral form of polemos "war." Also see Ptolemaic.
Example
- 1. Whether ptolemy drew his own maps is unclear .
- 2. Ptolemy 's " geography " was an attempt to take myths out of maps .
- 3. In other words , we need to drop ptolemy and come up with a theory of eurozone relativity .
- 4. Arsino then returned to egypt and married her brother king ptolemy ii , her junior by eight years .
- 5. Ptolemy 's model of the cosmos was adopted by the catholic church and held as official doctrine for fourteen hundred years .