Διονύσιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos) +‎ -ιος (-ios).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.o.ny̌ː.si.os/ → /ði.oˈny.si.os/ → /ði.oˈni.si.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.o.ny̌ː.si.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.oˈny.si.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.oˈny.si.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.oˈny.si.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.oˈni.si.os/

Proper noun

Δῐονῡ́σῐος • (Dionū́sios) m (genitive Δῐονῡσίου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Dionysius or Dennis

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Δῐονῡ́σῐος; τοῦ Δῐονῡσῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Δῐονῡ́σῐος ho Dionū́sios
Genitive	τοῦ Δῐονῡσῐ́ου toû Dionūsíou
Dative	τῷ Δῐονῡσῐ́ῳ tôi Dionūsíōi
Accusative	τὸν Δῐονῡ́σῐον tòn Dionū́sion
Vocative	Δῐονῡ́σῐε Dionū́sie
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Διονύσιος (Dionýsios), Διονύσης (Dionýsis)
• → Latin: Dionȳsius
  • Old French: Denis
    • French: Denis (see there for further descendants)
      • ⇒ French: Denise (feminine) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Middle English: Denis
      • English: Denis, Dennis
      • ⇒ Middle English: Tenney (diminutive)
        • ⇒ English: Tennyson (surname)
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: Dinis
      • Portuguese: Dinis, Diniz
  • → Italian: Dionisio, Dionigi
  • → Polish: Dionizy
  • → Portuguese: Dionísio
  • → Romanian: Dionisie, Dionis
  • → Russian: Диони́сий (Dionísij)
  • → Slovak: Dionýz
  • → Spanish: Dionisio
  • ⇒ Late Latin: Dionysia (feminine) (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Ancient Greek: Δίων (Díōn) (diminutive)
  • → English: Dion, Deion, Deon
    • ⇒ English: Dione, Dionne, Deonne (feminine)

Further reading

• “Διονύσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Διονύσιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1354 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008