Dionysius

English

Etymology

From Latin Dionysius, from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪəˈnɪzɪəs/, /daɪəˈnɪsɪəs/

Proper noun

Dionysius

1. An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 17:34:

     Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Translations

Ancient Greek male given name

• Armenian: Դիոնիսիոս (Dionisios)
• Catalan: Dionís
• Franco-Provençal: Denis
• French: Denis (fr) m
• Greek: Διονύσιος (el) (Dionýsios)

  Ancient: Διονύσιος (Dionúsios)

• Irish: Dinísias m
• Italian: Dionisio

• Latin: Dionysius
• Occitan: Danís m, Daunís m, Deunis m
• Polish: Dionizy (pl)
• Portuguese: Dionísio (pt) m
• Russian: Диони́сий (ru) (Dionísij)
• Spanish: Dionisio (es)
• Vietnamese: Điônisiô
• Walloon: Dni

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios), from Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos) +‎ -ιος (-ios)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di.oˈnyː.si.us/, [d̪iɔˈnyːs̠iʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.oˈni.si.us/, [d̪iɔˈniːs̬ius]

Proper noun

Dionȳsius m (genitive Dionȳsiī or Dionȳsī); second declension

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Dennis.
2. tyrant of Syracuse

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Dionȳsius	Dionȳsiī
Genitive	Dionȳsiī Dionȳsī1	Dionȳsiōrum
Dative	Dionȳsiō	Dionȳsiīs
Accusative	Dionȳsium	Dionȳsiōs
Ablative	Dionȳsiō	Dionȳsiīs
Vocative	Dionȳsī	Dionȳsiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• Dionysius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Dionysius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette