Dennis

English

Alternative forms

• Denis, Denys

Etymology

From Middle English Denis, from Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius, "follower of (the wine god) Dionysus".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnɪs

Proper noun

Dennis

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!

   • 1944, Mazo de la Roche, The Building of Jalna, Little,Brown&co:

     Each disliked the choice of the other. "Charles is a stern name," she affirmed. "Nonsense," said Philip. "It's as agreeable a name as there is. Dennis sounds like a comical Irish story." "You just show your bad feeling when you say such a thing," she retorted. "'T is a grand name!"

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Murray County, Georgia.
   2. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Georgia.
   3. An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas.
   4. A town and census-designated place therein, in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
   5. A census-designated place in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
   6. A township in Cape May County, New Jersey.
   7. A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
   8. A town in Parker County, Texas.
   9. An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
4. A locality in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.

Derived terms

• Coln St Dennis
• St Dennis

Related terms

• Denny
• Denise
• Dionysus, Dionysos
• Tennyson

Translations

male given name

• Catalan: Dionís (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丹尼斯 (zh) (Dānnísī)

• Czech: Denis (cs)
• Danish: Dennis
• Dutch: Dennis (nl)
• French: Denis (fr)
• Galician: Dinís (gl)
• German: Dennis, Denis (de)
• Greek: Ντένις (el) (Nténis) (transliteration from English)
• Greenlandic: Tiinasi
• Hungarian: Dénes (hu)
• Italian: Dionisio
• Japanese: デニス
• Korean: 데니스 (deniseu)
• Kyrgyz: Деңиз (Deŋiz)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} Dionizas
• Norwegian: Dennis (no)
• Occitan: Danís m, Daunís m, Deunis m
• Persian: دنیس (denis)
• Polish: Dionizy (pl) m
• Portuguese: Dinis (pt) m, Diniz m (archaic), Dênis m (Brazil only)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} Dionisie
• Russian: Дени́с (ru) (Denís)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Денис m

  Latin: Denis m

• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} Dionizij
• Spanish: Dionisio (es) m
• Swedish: Dennis (sv)
• Tagalog: Densyo
• Turkish: Deniz (tr)
• Ukrainian: Деніс m (Denis)
• Walloon: Dni

Anagrams

• Sinden, ends in, insend, send in, sendin', sinned

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Dennis, from Old French saint's name Denis, from Latin Dionysius.

Proper noun

Dennis

1. a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]

Danish

Etymology

From English Dennis in the 20th century.

Proper noun

Dennis

1. a male given name

References

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 12 845 males with the given name Dennis have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Dennis m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis

Faroese

Proper noun

Dennis m

1. a male given name

Usage notes

Patronymics

• son of Dennis: Dennisarson or Dennisson
• daughter of Dennis: Dennisardóttir or Dennisdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Dennis
Accusative	Dennis
Dative	Dennisi
Genitive	Dennisar, Dennis

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Dennis

1. a male given name, an English-type variant of Denis

Related terms

• Denise

Norwegian

Proper noun

Dennis

1. a male given name borrowed from English in the 20th century

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Dennis in the 20th century, from Old French Denis, from Latin Dionȳsius, from Ancient Greek Δῐονῡ́σῐος (Dionū́sios), from Δῐόνῡσος (Diónūsos) + -ῐος (-ios, “belonging to”), hence meaning follower of Dionysus.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Dennis c (genitive Dennis)

1. a male given name from English

References

• Dennis in Nomina | Historiska museet.