Dionysius

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Dionysius, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios)

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Dionysius

1. An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek
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     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
• Greek: Διονύσιος (el) (Dionýsios)

  Ancient:

• Irish: Dinísias m
• Italian: Dionisio
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: Dionysius
• Polish: Dionizy (pl)
• Portuguese: Dionísio (pt) m
• Russian: Диони́сий (ru) (Dionísij)
• Spanish: Dionisio (es)
• Vietnamese: Điônisiô

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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.