Διονύσιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos) +‎ -ιος (-ios)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.o.ny̌ː.si.os/ → /ði.oˈny.si.os/ → /ði.oˈni.si.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.o.ny̌ː.si.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.oˈny.si.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.oˈny.si.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.oˈny.si.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.oˈni.si.os/

Proper noun

Δῐονῡ́σῐος • (Dionū́sios) m (genitive Δῐονῡσίου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Dionysius or Dennis

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Δῐονῡ́σῐος; τοῦ Δῐονῡσῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Δῐονῡ́σῐος ho Dionū́sios
Genitive	τοῦ Δῐονῡσῐ́ου toû Dionūsíou
Dative	τῷ Δῐονῡσῐ́ῳ tôi Dionūsíōi
Accusative	τὸν Δῐονῡ́σῐον tòn Dionū́sion
Vocative	Δῐονῡ́σῐε Dionū́sie
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Διονύσιος (Dionýsios), Διονύσης (Dionýsis)
• → Latin: Dionȳsius
  • Old French: Denis
    • French: Denis, Denys (historical)
      • → Czech: Denis
        • ⇒ Czech: Denisa (feminine)
      • → Dutch: Dennis
      • → German: Denis, Dennis
      • → Hungarian: Dénes
      • → Brazilian Portuguese: Dênis
      • → Romanian: Denis
        • ⇒ Romanian: Denisa (feminine)
      • → Russian: Денис (Denis)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: Денис

        Latin script: Denis

      • → Slovak: Denis
        • ⇒ Slovak: Denisa (feminine)
      • → Slovene: Denis
      • → Ukrainian: Денис (Denys)
      • ⇒ French: (feminine) Denise
        • → Dutch: Denise
        • → English: Denise
        • → German: Denise
    • → 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: (feminine) Dionysia
    • → Italian: Dionisia
    • → Middle English: Dionysia
      • ⇒ Middle English: Dye (diminutive)
        • ⇒ Middle English: Diot (diminutive)
          • ⇒ English: Dwight (surname; transferred to given name)
        • ⇒ English: Dyson, Tyson (surname)
    • → Portuguese: Dionísia
    • → Spanish: Dionisia
• ⇒ Ancient Greek: Διων (Diōn) (diminutive)
  • → English: Dion, Deion, Deon
    • ⇒ English: Dione, Dionne, Deonne (feminine)

Further reading

• “Διονύσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Διονύσιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1354 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008