Iudas

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English

Proper noun

Iudas

  1. Archaic spelling of Judas.
    • 1870, Thomas Lever, Sermons, page 73:
      And surely none can continue neare, and deare vnto our kyng Christ but suche, for others that euer prolle for priuate profite, bee hypocrites and flatterers as was Iudas.
    • 1884, Jacob Isidor Mombert, Five Books of Moses (Genesis, XXXVIII: 1), page 115:
      And it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren & gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam, and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte.
    • 1904, William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, Loves Labour's Lost, page 288:
      Ped: Iudas I am. Dum: A Iudas? Ped: Not Iscariot sir. Iudas I am ycliped Machabeus.
  2. Archaic form of Jude.

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰούδᾱς (Ioúdās), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Y'hudá).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Iūdās m sg (genitive Iūdae); first declension

  1. Judas
  2. Jude (biblical book and apostle)

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

singular
nominative Iūdās
genitive Iūdae
dative Iūdae
accusative Iūdām
Iūdān
ablative Iūdā
vocative Iūdā

Descendants

  • Catalan: Judes
  • Italian: Giuda
  • Middle English: Iudas

Middle English

Proper noun

Iudas

  1. Judas
  2. Jude

Descendants

Old English

Etymology

From Latin Iūdās, from Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Iūdas m

  1. Judas

Declension