Dorotheus^{[pronunciation?]} or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek Dōrótheos (Δωρόθεος), meaning "God's Gift", from δῶρον (dōron), "gift" + θεός (theós), "god".^[1] Its feminine counterpart is Dorothea, (Dorothy). Theodore means the same, with the root words in reverse order. The earliest form of the word δῶρον is the Mycenaean Greek do-ra, meaning "gifts", written in Linear B syllabic script;^[2] the feminine form Theodora is also attested in Linear B as 𐀳𐀃𐀈𐀨, te-o-do-ra.^[3]

Linguistic variants

• Greek: Dorotheos (Δωρόθεος)
• Latin: Dorotheus
• English: Dorotheus
• Russian: Dorofei (Дорофей)
• Serbian: Dorotej (Доротеј)
• Czech: Dorota, Dora fem.

People

• Dorotheos (sculptor) (5th century BC), of Argos, to whom Kresilas was pupil
• Dorotheus of Sidon (fl. 75), Hellenistic astrologer
• Dorotheus of Tyre (ca. 255 – 362), Christian presbyter and later bishop of Tyre
• St. Dorotheus (martyr), who was martyred with Gorgonius and Peter in the 4th century
• Dorotheus (poet) (fl. 4th-century), Christian poet, known for The Vision of Dorotheus.
• Dorotheus of Antioch, (c. 388 – 407), Arian Archbishop of Constantinople
• Dorotheus (jurist) (fl. 534), Byzantine jurist who helped draft the Justinian Code
• Dorotheus of Gaza (505–565), monastic father
• Pope Peter IV of Alexandria, also known as Dorotheos (ruled in 565–569)
• Dorotheus of Hilandar (fl. 1356–1382), protos of Mount Athos
• Dorotheus I of Athens, metropolitan of Athens from 1388 to 1392
• Dorotheos II of Trebizond, metropolitan of Trebizond from 1472
• Dorotheos of Ohrid, 15th-century bishop
• Dorotheus IV Ibn Al-Ahmar (d. 1611), Patriarch of Antioch from 1604 to 1611.
• Dorotheus of Mount Sinai and Raithu, Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu
• Archbishop Dorotheus of Athens, Archbishop of All Greece 1956–1957
• Dorotheos of Adrianople
• Dorotheos the Younger
• Dorotheos Polykandriotis, Church of Greece
• Pseudo-Dorotheus, 3rd-century Christian writer
• Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia, 17th-century Greek chronicler
• Dorotheus (magister militum), Byzantine military leader