Josip

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph) (not from Latin Iosephus), from Hebrew יוֹסֵף (Yōsēṗ, “(God) shall add”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jǒsip/
• Hyphenation: Jo‧sip

Proper noun

Jòsip m (Cyrillic spelling Јо̀сип)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph

Declension

Declension of Josip

	singular
nominative	Josip
genitive	Josipa
dative	Josipu
accusative	Josipa
vocative	Josipe
locative	Josipu
instrumental	Josipom

Further reading

• “Josip”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025