How do you use Ptolemy in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like astronomer or stargazer, plus the exact meaning.
Ptolemy in a sentence
Ptolemy meaning
- A male given name from Ancient Greek of Greek origin, borne by historical persons in ancient Egypt.
- Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90 – c. 168 AD), a Greek-speaking mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived in the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria in Roman Egypt. His most important works were the Almagest and the Geography
Synonyms of Ptolemy
Using Ptolemy
- The main meaning on this page is: A male given name from Ancient Greek of Greek origin, borne by historical persons in ancient Egypt. | Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90 – c. 168 AD), a Greek-speaking mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived in the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria in Roman Egypt. His most important works were the Almagest and the Geography | A male given name from Ancient Greek of Greek origin, borne by historical persons in ancient Egypt.
- Useful related words include: claudius ptolemaeus, astronomer, uranologist, stargazer.
- In the example corpus, ptolemy often appears in combinations such as: of ptolemy, by ptolemy, ptolemy ii.
Context around Ptolemy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ptolemy
- In this selection, "ptolemy" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, believed, king, britain, regarding, estimated and uses stand out and add context to how "ptolemy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include action caused ptolemy keraunus to and analysis of ptolemy believes that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ptolemy" sits close to words such as acadia, adesina and adityanath, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ptolemy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In his pastoral poetry, he praised Ptolemy II Philadelphos for his wealth, military might, and wisdom. (16 words)
I remember the late Dr. Ptolemy Reid telling them to go home, that their votes would not count. (18 words)
The library may have been built during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the mid-third century BCE. (19 words)
Two hundred years after the construction of Ptolemy's canal, Cleopatra seems to have had no west–east waterway passage, because the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, which had fed Ptolemy's west–east canal, had by that time dwindled, being choked with silt. (44 words)
All rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty uninterruptedly from Ptolemy IV ( Ptolemy II married his sister but had no issue) were married to their brothers and sisters, so as to keep the Ptolemaic blood "pure" and to strengthen the line of succession. (41 words)
Although Abu Ma'shar believed Ptolemy to be one of the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt after the conquest of Alexander the title ‘King Ptolemy’ is generally viewed as a mark of respect for Ptolemy's elevated standing in science. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Although Abu Ma'shar believed Ptolemy to be one of the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt after the conquest of Alexander the title ‘King Ptolemy’ is generally viewed as a mark of respect for Ptolemy's elevated standing in science.
A C15th copy of Ptolemy's map of Britain Ptolemy also devised and provided instructions on how to create maps both of the whole inhabited world ( oikoumenè ) and of the Roman provinces.
Alhazen corrected a significant error of Ptolemy regarding binocular vision, but otherwise his account is very similar; Ptolemy also attempted to explain what is now called Hering's law.
All rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty uninterruptedly from Ptolemy IV ( Ptolemy II married his sister but had no issue) were married to their brothers and sisters, so as to keep the Ptolemaic blood "pure" and to strengthen the line of succession.
As head of the library Eratosthenes tutored the children of Ptolemy, including Ptolemy IV Philopator who became the fourth Ptolemaic pharaoh.
Astrology main The mathematician Claudius Ptolemy 'the Alexandrian' as imagined by a 16th-century artist Ptolemy has been referred to as “a pro-astrological authority of the highest magnitude”.
His famous star catalog was incorporated into the one by Ptolemy, and may be almost perfectly reconstructed by subtraction of two and two thirds degrees from the longitudes of Ptolemy's stars.
One reason is that Ptolemy estimated the size of the Earth as too small: while Eratosthenes found 700 stadia for a great circle degree on the globe, Ptolemy uses 500 stadia in the Geography.
On the other hand, Gudmund Schütte, in his analysis of Ptolemy, believes that the Angles have simply been moved by an error coming from Ptolemy's use of imperfect sources.
Ptolemy's Almagest concerned mathematical theories regarding the motion of the planets, whereas the Hypotheses concerned what Ptolemy thought was the actual configuration of the planets.
This action caused Ptolemy Keraunus to kill two of her sons, Lysimachus and Philip, while the eldest, Ptolemy, was able to escape and to flee north, to the kingdom of the Dardanians.
Two hundred years after the construction of Ptolemy's canal, Cleopatra seems to have had no west–east waterway passage, because the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, which had fed Ptolemy's west–east canal, had by that time dwindled, being choked with silt.
In his pastoral poetry, he praised Ptolemy II Philadelphos for his wealth, military might, and wisdom.
Some have speculated that it was built for Alexander but not used due to Ptolemy I Soter having seized the funeral cortege.
It is shown on Ptolemy’s famous 2nd-century map, which was itself compiled from earlier sources held in the legendary library of Alexandria in Egypt.
The effort to decipher this ancient Ptolemy manuscript was the culmination of over 200 years of work from numerous different researchers.
The library may have been built during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the mid-third century BCE.
The rate of precession of one degree every approximately 72 years was not even known when Ptolemy wrote his Almagest in the second century CE.
I remember the late Dr. Ptolemy Reid telling them to go home, that their votes would not count.
Al-Sayeed pointed out in a post that that the two sandstone bas-reliefs (flat carvings) found in August seemed to depict Ptolemy XII.
Common combinations with ptolemy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of ptolemy 11×
- by ptolemy 7×
- ptolemy ii 5×
- ptolemy in 5×
- ptolemy also 4×
- that ptolemy 4×
- and ptolemy 4×
- ptolemy to 3×
- king ptolemy 3×
- to ptolemy 3×