Denis

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnɪs/, /dəˈni/

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Denis

1. 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?

2. A surname.

• Sinde, dines, enids, nides, snide, snied

• Denys (historical)

Inherited from Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).

• IPA^(key): /də.ni/

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Denis m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis; originally given in honor of a third century bishop of Paris, the patron saint of France
2. a surname based on the given name

• Denise

• → 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:

  Cyrillic script: Денис

  Latin script: Denis

• → Slovak: Denis
  • ⇒ Slovak: Denisa (feminine)
• → Slovene: Denis
• → Ukrainian: Денис (Denys)

• dines, dînes, dînés

• Dennis (borrowed from English)

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Denis

1. a male given name from French Denis, equivalent to English Dennis

• Denise

From Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius.

Denis

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis

• English: Dennis
• Yola: Deenees

• “Denis”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Denis m (Cyrillic spelling Денис)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis, Denis

Derived from French Denis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnis/

Denis m anim (genitive singular Denisa, nominative plural Denisovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name

• Denisko

• “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