"Theophilus" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /θiːˈɒfɪləs/
Etymology: Ancient Greek Θεόφιλος (Theóphilos), meaning "love of God" or "friend of God". Etymology templates: {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|grc|Θεόφιλος}} Ancient Greek Θεόφιλος (Theóphilos) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Theophilus
  1. (biblical) The addressee of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Categories (topical): Biblical characters, Individuals Translations (biblical character): Teofíl (Albanian), Theofíl (Albanian), Թեոփիլոս (Tʿeopʿilos) (Armenian), 提阿非羅 (Chinese Mandarin), 提阿非罗 (Tí'āfēiluó) (Chinese Mandarin), 提阿非罗 (Tí'āfēiluó) [Protestant] (Chinese Mandarin), 德敖斐羅 (Chinese Mandarin), 德敖斐罗 (Dé'áofěiluó) [Catholic] (Chinese Mandarin), Theofilus [masculine] (Dutch), Théophile (French), Theophilus (German), Θεόφιλος (Theófilos) [masculine] (Greek), Teofilo (Italian), Teofilos [masculine] (Norwegian), Teofil [masculine] (Polish), Teófilo [masculine] (Portuguese), Феофи́л (Feofíl) [masculine] (Russian), Teófilo [masculine] (Spanish), Theofilus (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Theophilus-en-name-Ur2UaTEg Disambiguation of Individuals: 49 51 Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion Disambiguation of 'biblical character': 84 16
  2. A male given name from Ancient Greek; rare in English. Categories (topical): English given names, English male given names, Individuals Translations (male given name): Teofíl (Albanian), Theofíl (Albanian), Θεόφιλος (Theóphilos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), Թեոփիլոս (Tʿeopʿilos) (Armenian), Théophile (French), Θεόφιλος (Theófilos) [masculine] (Greek), Teofilo (Italian), Teofil [masculine] (Polish), Феофи́л (Feofíl) [masculine] (Russian), Teófilo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Theophilus-en-name-jd7Z-qAF Disambiguation of Individuals: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 81 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 15 85 Disambiguation of 'male given name': 2 98

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.