Denis
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Denis
- A male given name from Ancient Greek, a mostly British and Irish spelling variant of Dennis.
- 1599, 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.
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Inherited from Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).
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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
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- → 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)
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- Dennis (borrowed from English)
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Denis
- a male given name from French Denis, equivalent to English Dennis
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From Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius.
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Denis
- a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis
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- “Denis”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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Denis m (Cyrillic spelling Денис)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis, Denis
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Declension of Denis
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Denis m anim (genitive singular Denisa, nominative plural Denisovia, declension pattern of chlap)
- a male given name
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Declension of Denis
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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