In modern times, the range is called "Karpaty" in Czech, Polish and Slovak and "Карпати" ("Karpaty") in Ukrainian, "Карпати" / "Karpati" in Serbian, "Carpați" in Romanian, "Карпаты" in Rusyn, "Karpaten" in German and "Kárpátok" in Hungarian. Although the toponym was recorded already by Ptolemy in the second century of the Christian era, the modern form of the name is a neologism in most languages. For instance, "Havasok" ("Snowy Mountains") was its medieval Hungarian name; Russian chronicles referred to it as "Hungarian Mountains". Later sources, such as Dimitrie Cantemir and the Italian chronicler Giovanandrea Gromo, referred to the range as "Transylvania's Mountains", while the 17th-century historian Constantin Cantacuzino translated the name of the mountains in an Italian-Romanian glossary to "Rumanian Mountains".