Dionysius

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Dionysius

Etymology

From Latin Dionysius, from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /daɪəˈnɪzɪəs/, /daɪəˈnɪsɪəs/

Proper noun

Dionysius

An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Acts 17:34:
  Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Translations

Ancient Greek male given name

Armenian: Դիոնիսիոս (Dionisios)
Catalan: Dionís (ca)
Coptic: ⲇⲓⲱⲛⲏⲥⲓⲟⲥ (diōnēsios)
Franco-Provençal: Denis
French: Denis (fr) m
Greek: Διονύσιος (el) (Dionýsios)
Ancient: Διονύσιος (Dionúsios)
Irish: Dinísias m
Italian: Dionisio
Latin: Dionysius
Occitan: Danís m, Daunís m, Deunis m
Polish: Dionizy (pl) m
Portuguese: Dionísio (pt) m
Russian: Диони́сий (ru) (Dionísij)
Sicilian: Dinisi m
Spanish: Dionisio (es)
Vietnamese: Điônisiô
Walloon: Dni

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios, from Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos) +‎ -ιος (-ios)).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /di.oˈnyː.si.us/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.oˈni.si.us/,

Proper noun

Dionȳsius m (genitive Dionȳsiī or Dionȳsī); second declension

a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Dennis
tyrant of Syracuse

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Dionȳsius	Dionȳsiī
genitive	Dionȳsiī Dionȳsī¹	Dionȳsiōrum
dative	Dionȳsiō	Dionȳsiīs
accusative	Dionȳsium	Dionȳsiōs
ablative	Dionȳsiō	Dionȳsiīs
vocative	Dionȳsī	Dionȳsiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

Old French: Denis
- French: Denis (see there for further descendants)
  - ⇒ French: Denise (feminine) (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: Denis
  - English: Denis, Dennis
  - ⇒ Middle English: Tenney (diminutive)
    - ⇒ English: Tennyson (surname)
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: Dinis
  - Portuguese: Dinis, Diniz
→ Italian: Dionisio, Dionigi
→ Polish: Dionizy
→ Portuguese: Dionísio
→ Romanian: Dionisie, Dionis
→ Russian: Диони́сий (Dionísij)
→ Slovak: Dionýz
→ Spanish: Dionisio
⇒ Late Latin: Dionysia (feminine) (see there for further descendants)

References

“Dionysius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Dionysius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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