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
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 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)
• Greek: Διονύσιος (el) (Dionýsios)

  Ancient: Διονύσιος (Dionúsios)

• Irish: Dinísias m
• Italian: Dionisio
• Latin: Dionysius

• Polish: Dionizy (pl)
• Portuguese: Dionísio (pt) m
• Russian: Диони́сий (Dionísij)
• Spanish: Dionisio (es)
• Vietnamese: Điônisiô

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Latin

Proper noun

Dionȳsius m (genitive Dionȳsiī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)