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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshúa'), and cognate of Iēsus (itself through Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs))
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iosūe m sg (variously declined, genitive Iosūe or Iosūae); indeclinable, first declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Joshua
- Joshua (biblical character)
- the Book of Joshua
Declension
Indeclinable noun or first-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
Further reading
- “Iosue”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Iosue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.