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Inflections of 'Ptolemy' (n): npl: Ptolemies

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

Ptol•e•my n., pl. -mies for 2.

Biographical(Claudius Ptolemaeus) fl.a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
Biographical, Ancient Historyany of the kings of the Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt 323–30b.c.

'Ptolemy' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

Algol - Almagest - Amman - Pharos - Ptolemaic - Ptolemaic system - Ptolemy I - Ptolemy II - Rosetta stone - Ruwenzori - Septuagint - Thaïs

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