47%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Greek Mythology Scripts Πρωτεύς(Ancient Greek) Pronounced Pron. PRAW-TEWS(Classical Greek) PRO-tee-əs(English) [key·IPA] Meaning & History Derived from Greek πρῶτος (protos) meaning "first". In Greek mythology this was the name of a prophetic god of the sea. Shakespeare later utilized it for a character in his play The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594). Categories beginnings, change, gods, moons, moons of Neptune, Ni no Kuni characters, numeric meanings, ocean deities, prophets