Louis

English

Etymology

French royal name latinized as Ludovicus, from Germanic (Frankish) hlud (“fame”) + wig (“warrior”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /luːɪ/
• (US) IPA: /luːɪs/

Proper noun

Louis

1. A male given name.
   • 1849 Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter XXXVI:

     "It is hardly a week since you called me your future husband, and treated me as such; now I am once more the tutor for you: I am addressed as Mr. Moore, and Sir; your lips have forgotten Louis."

     "No, Louis, no: it is an easy, liquid name, not soon forgotten."

Related terms

• (variants): Lewis, Louie, Aloysius
• (feminine forms): Louise, Louisa

Translations

male given name

Albanian: Luigj (sq) m. Bengali: লুইস (bn) (lu'is) Catalan: Lluís (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 路易 (zh) (Lùyì) Czech: Ludvík (cs) m. Danish: Ludvig (da) Dutch: Lodewijk (nl) Esperanto: Ludoviko (eo) Faroese: Ludvík (fo) m. Finnish: Ludvig (fi) (historical only) French: Louis (fr) m. German: Ludwig (de) m. Greek: Λουδοβίκος (el) (Loudovíkos) m. Hawaiian: Lui Hungarian: Lajos (hu) Icelandic: Lúðvík (is)

Irish: Lughaidh (ga) m. Italian: Luigi (it) m. Japanese: ルイ (ja) (Rui) Latin: Ludovicus (la) Latvian: Ludvigs (lv) m. Lithuanian: Liudvikas (lt) Norwegian: Ludvig (no) Polish: Ludwik (pl) Portuguese: Luís (pt), Luiz (pt) Russian: Луи (ru) (Luí) m. (indeclinable), Людовик (ru) (Ljudóvik) m. (historical) Slovak: Ľudovít (sk) m. Spanish: Luis (es) m. Swedish: Ludvig (sv) Ukrainian: Луї (uk) (Lují) m. (indeclinable), Людовик (uk) (Ljudóvyk) m. (historical)

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Bulgarian: Луи Serbo-Croatian: Luj Faroese: Ludvík Galician: Luís

Occitan: Loís Romanian: Ludovic Serbo-Croatian: Луј Slovene: Ludvik

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Dutch

Etymology

From French.

Proper noun

Louis

1. A male given name, variant of Lodewijk.

Derived terms

• Louise, Louisa

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French

Etymology

From Germanic (Frankish) hlud (“fame”) + wig (“warrior”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lwi/

Proper noun

Louis m.

1. A male given name.
2. A patronymic surname.

Related terms

• Jean-Louis
• Loïc
• Ludovic
• Louise

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German

Etymology

From French.

Proper noun

Louis

1. A male given name, variant of Ludwig.