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Gender Feminine
Usage Ancient Greek, German, Literature
Scripts Διοτίμα(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsDeotyma (Polish), Diotime (French)
Meaning & History
Feminine form of Diotimos. Greek seer and philosopher Diotima of Mantinea was Socrates' teacher in Plato's 'Symposium'. The name also belonged to characters in Robert Musil's 'The Man without Qualities' and Hölderlin's novel 'Hyperion', the latter of which inspired a score by Italian composer Luigi Nono: 'Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima' (1980).