"Demeter (name)"

--- CONTENT ---
Demitra, Greek female main name (baptist name) which comes from the ancient Greek name of the goddess Demitra.

Etymology

The name Dimitra is a female type of the modern Greek male name Dimitris, which emerged from the ancient Greek Dimitrios. The ancient Greek equivalent female, still in use, is Demetria "dedicated to Dimitra", the goddess of agricultural work, fertility and marriage in ancient Greek mythology.

The theonym Dimitra itself is produced by the ancient Greek Dimitris / Damatir / Domatoter, which is an uncertain etymus, although, according to the Dictionary of the Greek Language of Babiniotis, it is certain that its second synthetic name contains the word mother/mother, while the first synthetic must be identified with the word d. "land", so the name would mean "mother land".

A short type of the theonym Dimitra is Dimos, a name by which three persons of Greek mythology are known and the Athenian courtesan Dimos (3rd century BC). The Modern Greek name Municipality was formed independently of Demo.

Spread name
Name today is particularly popular in Greece. In an attempt to statistically assess the frequency of Greek names, the baptismal Demeter is presented as the 15th most common name (10th among women) and Demetria as the 438th most common name (316th among women). Accordingly, Demetrius appears as the 6th most common name (2nd among males).

The ancient Greek name Demitra seems to have been rare, as was generally the case with the names that repeated the theonyms. It is testified three times, a Rhodes and a priestess of the city of Sidites in Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, and a Amphipolitissa in the Hellenistic period.

More frequent was the ancient Greek dephosphore Demetria, which, according to Thetima, appears in Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN, Vol. IV) 207 times, with an earlier surest testimony in Athens in the 5th century BC and last testimonies in Thessaloniki, Edessa and Veria in the 5th-6th century AD. Parallel types: Demetery (4th century BC, Athens), Dimitria (imperial period, Cyrenaean), Demetria (imperial period, Bithynia; 2nd century AD, Mysia), Demetry (2nd-3rd century AD, Cyprus), Demetria (imperial period, Lower Italy; 1st century AD, Corinth; 2nd-3rd century AD, Lower Italy; 3rd century AD, Thrace), Dimitria (Byzantine period, Megarid).

Male type
Dimitrios, Dimitris

Nominal holiday
On October 26th, Demetrius, great martyr.

Types and subscortics of the name
Dimitra, Demetria, ordinary types, common throughout Greece; Demetria is considered a characteristic zakhynthian
Dimitroula, Toula, Troula, sub-Koristian types, common throughout Greece
Mimi, Mimi, Mimika, Mimas, from the subcortician short types of Mimi, Mimi, Mimi
Demi, from the male short type Municipality
Mitsis, from the male short type Mitsos
Dimi, from the man guy