Denis
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛnɪs/, /dəˈni/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnɪs, -iː
Proper noun
[edit]Denis
- A male given name from Ancient Greek, a mostly British and Irish spelling variant of Dennis.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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?
- A surname.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Denis m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis; originally given in honor of a third century bishop of Paris, the patron saint of France
- a surname based on the given name
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → 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:
- → Slovak: Denis
- ⇒ Slovak: Denisa (feminine)
- → Slovene: Denis
- → Ukrainian: Денис (Denys)
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Dennis (borrowed from English)
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Denis
- a male given name from French Denis, equivalent to English Dennis
Related terms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius.
Proper noun
[edit]Denis
- a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “Denis”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Denis m (Cyrillic spelling Денис)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis, Denis
Declension
[edit]Declension of Denis
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Denis m anim
- a male given name
Declension
[edit]Declension of Denis
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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
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