Tímea

For the genus of sponges, see Timea (sponge).
Tímea
Genderfeminine
LanguageHungarian
Name dayMay 3
Origin
LanguageGreek
Meaning"honour," "sweet-natured," "good soul/mind/vitality," "cheerfulness," "good-spirits," "good mood."
Other names
NicknameTimi
DerivedEuthymia

Tímea, Timea or originally, Timéa is a popular Hungarian female given name.

The name Tímea was created by the popular Hungarian author Mór Jókai for a figure in his 1872 novel The Man with the Golden Touch. It is derived from Euthymia, a Greek noun meaning "sweet natured".[1]

In the novel, originally the name was presented as "Timéa" (pronunce: [ˈtimeːɒ]), but the name had spread in a somewhat altered form, Tímea ([ˈtiːmɛɒ]), as used today. There are conjectures that Jókai might have been influenced in his inventing (or re-introducing) the name by historical forerunners of the Antiquity.[2] Alleged inspirations by the name of Timaea, Queen of Sparta, or by a female form of Timaeus are plausible both etymologically and historically (etymologically, a derivation from Latin "Timaea" to Hungarian "Timéa" would be straightforward, matching the Latin regional pronunciation of Hungary perfectly; and historically, Jókai, a man if his social class that time, had a good command of Latin language and wide knowledge about the culture of Antiquity), but the novel's story does not contain any direct clues, and there are no direct references in Jókai's other legacy documents either, except from the general fact that he often liked playing with language in many of his works and mentioning figures of the Antiquity in short remarks to ornate the style.

People with the name

References

  1. ^ Duden, das große Vornamenlexikon
  2. ^ Jeffrey Goldberg: About Timea's name. A note on the website The Goldberg and Markóczy Family.
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