Bartholomew (disambiguation)
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Bartholomew is an English given name that derives from the Aramaic name meaning "son of Talmai
". Bar is Aramaic for "son", and marks patronyms
. Talmai either comes from telem "furrow"
or is a Hebrew version of Ptolemy
. Thus Bartholomew is either "son of furrows" (i.e., rich in land) or "son of Ptolemy".
Bartholomew is also an English or Scottish surname
with the same onomastic
meaning as the above as a given name.
Talmai
Talmai is a name in the Bible referring to a number of minor people. Its Aramaic version was connected to the Greek Ptolemy , and, later, to the Italian Bartolomeo, English Bartholomew etc....
". Bar is Aramaic for "son", and marks patronyms
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
. Talmai either comes from telem "furrow"
Ridge and furrow
Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages. The earliest examples date to the immediate post-Roman period and the system was used until the 17th century in some areas. Ridge and furrow topography is...
or is a Hebrew version of Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
. Thus Bartholomew is either "son of furrows" (i.e., rich in land) or "son of Ptolemy".
Bartholomew is also an English or Scottish surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
with the same onomastic
Onomastics
Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The words are from the Greek: "ὀνομαστικός" , "of or belonging to naming" and "ὀνοματολογία" , from "ὄνομα" "name". Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of...
meaning as the above as a given name.
People with this given name
- BartholomewBartholomewBartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and is usually identified as Nathaniel . He was introduced to Christ through St. Philip, another of the twelve apostles as per , where the name Nathaniel first appears. He is also mentioned as “Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee” in...
, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus - Bartholomaeus ParvusBartholomew of Bologna (missionary)Bartholomew of Bologna , also known as Bartholomaeus Parvus , was a Dominican missionary, sent by Pope John XXII to Cilician Armenia, where he interacted with the Armenian nobles and the ruling Mongols....
(d. 1333), known as the Apostle of Armenia - Bartholomaeus Anglicus, a Franciscan encyclopedist of the thirteenth century
- Venerable Bartholomew of Braga (1514–1582) - Catholic Encyclopedia article
- Bartholomew of BragancaBartholomew of BragancaBlessed Bartholomew di Braganca was an Italian Dominican friar and bishop. He was born in the city of Vicenza to the noble family of di Braganca....
(ca. 1200–1271) - Catholic Encyclopedia article - Bartholomew of BresciaBartholomew of BresciaBartholomew of Brescia was an Italian canonist.-Life:He studied Roman and ecclesiastical law at Bologna, where he himself became a teacher...
(d. 1258), an Italian canonist - Catholic Encyclopedia article - Bartholomew of EdessaBartholomew of EdessaBartholomew of Edessa was a Syrian Christian apologist and polemical writer. The place of his birth is not known; it was probably Edessa or some neighbouring town, for he was certainly a monk of that city, and in his refutation of Agarenus, he calls himself several times "the monk of Edessa"...
, Syrian apologist and polemical writer - Catholic Encyclopedia article - Bartholomew of FarneBartholomew of FarneBartholomew of Farne was a Benedictine hermit. Born Tostig, to parents of Scandanvian origin, in Whitby, Northumbria, England. He changed his name while still a child to William. He then travelled through Europe, possibly to escape marriage. He returned to England to enter a Benedictine monastery,...
(d. 1193), English Hermit and saint - Bartholomew of LuccaBartholomew of LuccaBartholomew of Lucca also known as Tolomeo da Lucca or Ptolemy da Lucca was a medieval Italian historian....
(1227–1327), historian - Any of three Medieval Pisans known as Bartholomew of Pisa, Catholic Encyclopedia article
- Bartholomew AlbizziBartholomew AlbizziBartholomew Albizzi was an Italian Franciscan hagiographer. He is known for his life of Gerardi Cagnoli de Valencia.-External links:*...
(d.1342), Franciscan hagiographer - Bartholomew RinonicoBartholomew RinonicoBartholomew of Pisa was an Italian Franciscan and chronicler.He was a Pisan of noble family. In 1352 he was a student at Bologna and later filled the office of Lector there as well as at Padua, Pisa, Sienna, and Florence. He also preached for many years with great succession different Italian cities...
(d. c.1401), Franciscan chronicler - Bartholomew of San ConcordioBartholomew of San ConcordioBartholomew of San Concordio was an Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters.-Life:...
(1260–1347), canonist and man of letters - Catholic Encyclopedia article
- Bartholomew Albizzi
- Fra Bartolomeo (1472–1517), Tuscan Renaissance artist
- Bartholomew Dias (d. 1500), Portuguese maritime explorer, first European to sail round the Cape of Good HopeCape of Good HopeThe Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.There is a misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, because it was once believed to be the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In fact, the...
- Bartholomew ColumbusBartolomeo ColumbusBartholomew Columbus was an explorer and the younger brother of Christopher Columbus.In the 1470s Bartholomew was a mapmaker in Lisbon, the principal center of cartography of the time, and conceived with his brother the "Enterprise of the Indies", a scheme to reach the Orient and its lucrative...
(1461–1515), cartographer, brother of Christopher ColumbusChristopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
, founder of Santo DomingoSanto DomingoSanto Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River... - Bartholomew SharpBartholomew SharpBartholomew Sharp an English buccaneer whose pirate career lasted only three years . His flagship was the Trinity....
(17th century), pirate - Bartholomew RobertsBartholomew RobertsBartholomew Roberts , born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off America and West Africa between 1719 and 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. He is estimated to have captured over 470 vessels...
, "Black Bart" (1682–1722) infamous WelshWelsh peopleThe Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
Pirate - Bartholomew "Bobby" BorielloBartholomew BorielloBartholomew "Bobby" Boriello was a New York mobster who belonged to the Gambino crime family and served as boss John Gotti's favorite bodyguard and chauffeur...
(1929–1991), New York mobster - Patriarch Bartholomew I of ConstantinoplePatriarch Bartholomew I of ConstantinopleEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, and thus "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion, since 2 November 1991...
(b. 1940)
People with this surname
- Augustus Theodore BartholomewAugustus Theodore BartholomewAugustus Theodore Bartholomew was a bibliographer and a librarian at Cambridge University for over twenty-five years. He was the youngest child of a large family, his father having died shortly before his birth. He grew up in Fowlmere, near Cambridge, and attended the Nonconformist Grammar...
(1882-1933) , British bibliographer and a librarian at Cambridge University - Bartholomew (Surrey cricketer), the surname of three cricketers who played for Surrey in the mid-18th century
- Brent BartholomewBrent BartholomewBrent Robert Bartholomew is a former American football punter of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the sixth round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State.Bartholomew was also a member of the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins....
(born 1976), former NFL football punter - D.J. BartholomewD.J. BartholomewDavid John Bartholomew FBA is a British statistician who was President of the Royal Statistical Society 2002–2003.In 1955 he married Marian Elsie Lake, and they have two daughters.-Career:...
(born 1931), British statistician - Dave BartholomewDave BartholomewDave Bartholomew is a musician, band leader, composer and arranger, prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century...
(born 1920), American musician, composer & promoter - David Ewen BartholomewDavid Ewen BartholomewCaptain David Ewen Bartholomew, CB was an officer of the British Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, who rose from a poor background to become a post captain and prominent surveyor and cartographer, who was the first British man to map numerous sections of the South American, Arabian and African...
(c. 1767 - 1821), British naval officer - Doris BartholomewDoris BartholomewDoris Aileen Bartholomew is an American linguist whose published research specialises in the lexicography, historical and descriptive linguistics for indigenous languages in Mexico, in particular for Oto-Manguean languages. Bartholomew's extensive publications on Mesoamerican languages span five...
(born 1930), American linguist - Freddie BartholomewFreddie BartholomewFrederick Cecil Bartholomew , known for his acting work as Freddie Bartholomew, was an English-American child actor. One of the most famous child actors of all time, he became very popular in 1930s Hollywood films...
(1924-1992), British actor & filmmaker - George BartholomewGeorge BartholomewGeorge Bartholomew was an American inventor who is credited with the invention of concrete pavement. In 1886, Bartholomew moved to Bellefontaine, Ohio, after having learned about cement production. Bartholomew found a good source of limestone and clay in the area; from this, he hoped to create an...
, American inventor of concrete pavement - George Bartholomew (biologist)George Bartholomew (biologist)George Adelbert "Bart" Bartholomew was an American biologist. He was born in Independence, Missouri and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. During the Second World War he served as a physicist in the U.S. Naval Bureau of Ordnance...
, American biologist - Harland BartholomewHarland BartholomewHarland Bartholomew was an American urban planner. Although a civil engineer by training and disposition, Harland's career started just as the automobile production was about to take off, industrial development was booming and urban populations grew...
(1889 - 1989), American urban planner - Ian BartholomewIan BartholomewIan Bartholomew is an English actor who has worked widely in both theatre and television.In television Bartholomew's work has ranged from The Darling Buds of May, Rumpole of the Bailey, Minder, and more recently, Making Waves and Spooks....
, English actor - The noted cartographers of the Edinburgh engraving firm John Bartholomew and SonJohn Bartholomew and SonCollins Bartholomew, formerly John Bartholomew and Son, is a long-established map publishing company originally based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is currently a subsidiary of HarperCollins.-History:...
:- John Bartholomew SeniorJohn Bartholomew SeniorJohn Bartholomew Senior was a Scottish cartographer and engraver.The son of George Bartholomew , John founded the engraving and mapmaking firm of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd. in 1826....
(1805-1861), the founder - John Bartholomew JuniorJohn BartholomewJohn Bartholomew Junior was a Scottish cartographer, born in Edinburgh.His father John Bartholomew Senior started a cartographical establishment in Edinburgh,Scotland and he was educated in the work. He was subsequently assistant to the German geographer August Petermann, until in 1856 he took up...
(1831-1893), son of the founder, who developed colour contouring - John George BartholomewJohn George BartholomewJohn George Bartholomew FRSE was a British cartographer and geographer. As a holder of a royal warrant, he used the title "Cartographer to the King"; for this reason he was sometimes known by the epithet "the Prince of Cartography".Bartholomew's longest lasting legacy is arguably naming the...
(1860-1920), son of John Junior - John (Ian) BartholomewJohn (Ian) BartholomewJohn Bartholomew CBE, generally known as Ian Bartholomew was a Scottish cartographer and geographer....
(1890-1962), son of John George - John Christopher BartholomewJohn Christopher BartholomewJohn Christopher Bartholomew or J.C. Bartholomew was a Scottish cartographer and geographer.He was the son of John Bartholomew , and the great-great-grandson of the founder of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.....
(1923-2008), son of Ian
- John Bartholomew Senior
- John Eric Bartholomew (1026 - 1984), birth name of comedian Eric MorecambeEric MorecambeJohn Eric Bartholomew OBE , known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death of a heart attack in 1984...
- Joseph BartholomewJoseph BartholomewJoseph Bartholomew was an American judge who served one of the first three Justices of the Supreme Court of North Dakota from 1889 to 1900. He died unexpectedly in 1901 at age 57.-External links:*...
(1843 - 1901), American judge - Joshua BartholomewJoshua BartholomewJoshua Bartholomew is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.Bartholomew was born in Pembroke, Ontario, and raised on military bases throughout Canada including CFB Petawawa, CFB Valcartier and CFB Borden...
(born 1984), Canadian singer-songwriter - Ken BartholomewKen BartholomewKenneth "Ken" Eldred Bartholomew is a former speed skating champion from the United States.Bartholomew was born in Leonard, North Dakota. His parents were William "Bill" N. Bartholomew and Clara U. Bartholomew. Bill and Clara had five children: Earl, Vern, Ken, Ardys, and Carl...
(born 1920), U.S. speed skater - Les BartholomewLes BartholomewLester Justin Bartholomew was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1928 and the Chicago White Sox in 1932. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin and died in Barrington, Illinois. Bartholomew weighed 195 lbs, batted right-handed, and threw...
(1903 - 1972), American baseball player - Linda Bartholomew (1949 - 2010), singer-songwriter
- Logan BartholomewLogan Bartholomew| name = Logan Bartholomew| image =| imagesize = 150| caption =| birth_name = John Logan Batholomew| birth_date = | birth_place = Galion, Ohio, U.S....
(born 1984), American actor - Lois Thompson BartholomewLois Thompson BartholomewLois Thompson Bartholomew is the author of the Young Adult adventure novel The White Dove as well as numerous magazine articles and short stories....
(born 1947), American author - Matthew BartholomewMatthew BartholomewMatthew Bartholomew is a Trinidad & Tobago football player, who currently plays for W Connection.- References :...
(born 1968), Trinidad & Tobago football player - Pablo BartholomewPablo BartholomewPablo Bartholomew is an award-winning Indian photojournalist.Pablo Bartholomew is an independent photographer based in New Delhi, India...
(born 1955), Indian photojournalist - Paul BartholomewPaul BartholomewPaul Amos Batholomew was an architect in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. From the beginning of his practice, he received a variety of high-profile commissions for both residential and non-residential structures, mainly in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. His buildings typically had historicist...
(1883 - 1973), American architect - Peter BartholomewPeter BartholomewPeter Bartholomew was a soldier and mystic from France who was part of the First Crusade.In December, 1097, during the siege of Antioch, Peter began to have visions, mostly of St. Andrew. Peter claimed St. Andrew took him to the Church of St. Peter, inside Antioch, and showed him where the relic...
(d. 1099), French soldier of the First Crusade - Phyllis BartholomewPhyllis BartholomewPhyllis Bartholomew is an English track and field athlete who competed in the long jump event during her career. She was born in Reading, Berkshire, England. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1934 British Empire Games, and set her personal best on 1932-07-09 at a meet in London...
(born 1914), English long jumper - Reginald BartholomewReginald BartholomewReginald Bartholomew is an American diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Lebanon , Spain , and Italy . He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a former member of the United States National Security Council...
(born 1936), American diplomat - Richard BartholomewRichard BartholomewRichard Lawrence Bartholomew was an art critic, photographer, painter, poet and writer.-Early life:Richard Bartholomew fled from Tavoy , Burma , where he was born, during the Second World War...
(1926 - 1985), Burmese-Indian art critic and photographer - Riley BartholomewRiley BartholomewRiley Bartholomew was a Minnesota state senator from 1859 to 1860.Riley Bartholomew married Fanny A. Watkins in 1829. He became a merchant in Geneva, Ohio, selling clocks and later operating a hotel before the family moved to Jefferson, Ohio, the Ashtabula County seat. In 1848 he was elected sheriff...
, Mimnnesota state senator (1859-1860) - Rondell BartholomewRondell BartholomewRondell Bartholomew is a Grenadian track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He has represented his country at two World Championships in Athletics and was a 400 m world finalist in 2011. His personal best for the event is 44.65 seconds.He has won medals at junior level...
(born 1990), Grenadian 400 metres sprinter - Sam BartholomewSam BartholomewSamuel Wilson Bartholomew was an American football fullback in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at the University of Tennessee and was drafted in the thirteenth round of the 1940 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins....
, (1917 - 1999), American NFL fullback - Scott and CaseyScott and CaseyThe Scott And Casey Show was a live, call in talk show hosted by Scott Hasick and Casey Bartholomew . Self described as "The touching true story of a boy and his dog", this humor-based program, focusing on the issues of the day, began in February 1994 at KFI Los Angeles, and continued there until...
(born 1969), U.S. radio host - Summer BartholomewSummer BartholomewSummer Robin Bartholomew is a model and actress who won the 1975 Miss USA pageant.Her first pageant experience came in 1973 when she won the Miss Oktoberfest title....
(born 1951), U.S. model and actress - Valentine BartholomewValentine BartholomewValentine Bartholomew was an English flower painter.Bartholomew had some professional instruction in art early on but was largely self-taught. In 1827, he married Adelaide Hullmandell the daughter of Charles Hullmandel, lithographer - the artist had worked for and lived with the latter from...
, a painter - William BartholomewWilliam BartholomewGeneral Sir William Henry Bartholomew GCB CMG DSO ADC was a British General during the Second World War and former Colonel Commandant to the Royal Artillery.-Army career:...
(1877 - 1962), British General - Will BartholomewWill BartholomewWill Bartholomew is a former American Football fullback.-College:Bartholomew played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers football team, earning many honors including 2001 SEC Good Works Team, Verizon Academic All-District IV, Academic All-SEC; 2000 Academic All-SEC; 1999 Academic All-SEC;...
(born 1980), American Football fullback - Winifred RushforthWinifred RushforthDr Winifred Rushforth OBE was a Jungian psychoanalyst who spent much of her career in Edinburgh, Scotland.- Early life :...
(née Bartholomew), a noted Jungian psychoanalyst, distant relative of the above cartographers
Fictional characters
- Bartholomew Cubbins, protagonist of the Dr. SeussDr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone....
books The 500 Hats of Bartholomew CubbinsThe 500 Hats of Bartholomew CubbinsThe 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written by Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard in 1938. Unlike the majority of Dr. Seuss's books, it is written in prose rather than rhyming and metered verse...
and Bartholomew and the OobleckBartholomew and the OobleckBartholomew and the Oobleck is a 1949 book by Dr. Seuss . It follows the adventures of a young boy named Bartholomew, who must rescue his kingdom from a sticky substance called "oobleck". The book is a sequel of sorts to The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins... - Bartholomew SimpsonBart SimpsonBartholomew JoJo "Bart" Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family. He is voiced by actress Nancy Cartwright and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...
, better known as Bart, from The Simpsons - Bartholomew (Spyro character), a yeti from Spyro the Dragon
- Bartholomew Kuma, a cyborg pirate from the manga One PieceOne Pieceis a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 4, 1997; the individual chapters are being published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 64th volume released as...
- Bart Bass, father of Chuck BassChuck BassCharles Bartholomew "Chuck" Bass is a fictional character in the Gossip Girl series of teen novels and the television series of the same name. He is portrayed by English actor Ed Westwick. Although he is a secondary, antagonistic character in the original book series, in the television series Chuck...
, a main character in the television series Gossip GirlGossip GirlGossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite... - DC ComicsDC ComicsDC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
superheroes the Flash (Bartholomew "Barry" Allen) and ImpulseBart AllenBartholomew "Bart" Allen is a superhero in the . Allen first appeared as the superhero Impulse. He would later go on to become the second Kid Flash and the fourth Flash. Allen's first cameo appearance was in The Flash #91, while his first full appearance was in issue #92...
(Bartholomew "Bart" Allen II)
The name Bartholomew in other languages
- Amharic: በርተሎሜዎስ (Berteloméwos)
- ArmenianArmenian languageThe Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
: Բարթողիմէոս Partoghimeos, pʰɑɾtʰoʁimɛjos - Aramaic: תולמי-בר
- Azeri: Bartolumay
- CatalanCatalan languageCatalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
: Bartomeu - Chinese: 巴多羅買 ; 白 (meaning "white", pronounced Pak in Wade-GilesWade-GilesWade–Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century , and was given completed form with Herbert Giles' Chinese–English dictionary of 1892.Wade–Giles was the most...
CantoneseStandard CantoneseCantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese....
or Bái in PinyinPinyinPinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...
MandarinStandard MandarinStandard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....
) as a single-character family name - CroatianCroatian languageCroatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
: Bartolomej - CzechCzech languageCzech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
: Bartoloměj - DanishDanish languageDanish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
: Bartolomæus - DutchDutch languageDutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
: Bartolomeüs - EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
: Bartholomew (full name/formal); Bart (diminutive) - FaroeseFaroese languageFaroese , is an Insular Nordic language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 25,000 Faroese people in Denmark and elsewhere...
: Bartal - FinnishFinnish languageFinnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
: Perttu or Pärttyli - FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
: Barthélemy - GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
: Bartolomäus - GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
: Βαρθολομαίος (Bartholomaios, Vartholomaios) - Hebrew: נתנאל (Natan-el), which means the gift of God
- HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
: Bertalan (given name), Bartal, Bartos, Bartó (last names) - IcelandicIcelandic languageIcelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...
: Bartólómeus - Insubric (Milanese): Bartolamee
- IrishIrish languageIrish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
: Bairtliméad or Parthálan (Parthálan is etymologically unrelated to Bartholomew) - ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
: BartolomeoBartolomeoBartolomeo is a given name of Italian origin. The name is a cognate of the name Bartholomew. People with the name include:*Bartolomeo Aimo , Italian professional bicycle road racer... - JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
: バーソロミュー (Bāsoromyū, used in transcription from English name), バルトロマイ (Barutoromai, most popular transcription in Japanese Bible etc.), ワルフォロメイ (Waruforomei, only used in Japanese Orthodox ChurchJapanese Orthodox ChurchThe Japanese Orthodox Church or The Orthodox Church in Japan is an autonomous church of Eastern Orthodoxy under the omophorion of the Russian Orthodox Church.-History:...
) - KoreanKorean languageKorean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
: 바르톨로메오(learned); 바돌로메(vernacular) - LatinLatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
: Bartholomaeus - LatvianLatvian languageLatvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
: Bartlomejs - LithuanianLithuanian languageLithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...
: Baltramiejus - Loretano Peruvian Spanish: Bartuco (vernacular)
- MacedonianMacedonian languageMacedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
: Вартоломеј (Bartolomej) - MalteseMaltese languageMaltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic...
: Bartoloméw (learned); Bartilméw (vernacular) - NorwegianNorwegian languageNorwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
: Bartolomeus - PolishPolish languagePolish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
: Bartłomiej (learned); (Bartosz is now other name, but comes from Bartłomiej) - PortuguesePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
: BartolomeuBartolomeuBartolomeu is a given name of Portuguese, Galician or Romanian origin. It is a cognate of Bartholomew. The name may refer to:*Bartolomeu Anania – a Romanian Orthodox monk who is currently the Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba*Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos... - ProvençalProvençalProvençal may refer to:*Provençal, meaning "of Provence", a region of France*Provençal dialect, a dialect of the Occitan language, spoken in the south-east of France*Provençal, meaning the whole Occitan language...
: Barthomieu - RomanianRomanian languageRomanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
: BartolomeuBartolomeuBartolomeu is a given name of Portuguese, Galician or Romanian origin. It is a cognate of Bartholomew. The name may refer to:*Bartolomeu Anania – a Romanian Orthodox monk who is currently the Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba*Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos... - RussianRussian languageRussian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Варфоломей (Varfolomei) - Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlan (etymologically unrelated to Bartholomew)
- SlovakSlovak languageSlovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
: Bartolomej - SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Bartolomé - SerbianSerbian languageSerbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
: Вартоломеј (in CyrillicCyrillic alphabetThe Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
), Vartolomej (in RomanLatin alphabetThe Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...
letters) - Slovene: Jernej
- SwedishSwedish languageSwedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
: Bartolomaios, Bartolomeus (older transcription)