Denis

See also: denis, dénis, and Dênis

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnɪs/, /dəˈni/

Proper noun

Denis

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, a mostly British spelling variant of Dennis.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fifth, Act V, Scene II:

     Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?

Anagrams

• Sinde, dines, enids, nides, snide, snied

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French

Alternative forms

• Denys (historical)

Etymology

From Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /də.ni/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Denis m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis; originally given in honor of a third century bishop of Paris, the patron saint of France.
2. based on the given name.

Related terms

• Denise

Descendants

• → Czech: Denis
  • ⇒ Czech: Denisa (feminine)
• → Dutch: Dennis
• → English: Denis, Dennis
• → German: Denis, Dennis
• → Hungarian: Dénes
• → Middle English: Denis
  • English: Denis, Dennis
  • ⇒ Middle English: Tenney (diminutive)
    • ⇒ English: Tennyson (surname)
• → 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)

Anagrams

• dines, dînes, dînés

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German

Alternative forms

• Dennis (borrowed from English)

Proper noun

Denis

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis, borrowed from French Denis.

Related terms

• Denise

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Denis m (Cyrillic spelling Денис)

1. a male given name, Dennis, Denis

Declension

Declension of Denis

	singular	plural
nominative	Denis	-
genitive	Denisa	-
dative	Denisu	-
accusative	Denisa	-
vocative	Denise	-
locative	Denisom	-
instrumental	Denisu	-

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Slovak

Etymology

From French Denis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnis/

Proper noun

Denis m (genitive singular Denisa, nominative plural Denisovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name.

Declension

Declension of Denis

	singular	plural
nominative	Denis	Denisovia
genitive	Denisa	Denisov
dative	Denisovi	Denisom
accusative	Denisa	Denisov
locative	Denisovi	Denisoch
instrumental	Denisom	Denismi

Derived terms

• Denisko

Further reading

• “Denis”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024