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Dennis
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English
+ (places)
Alternative forms
en Denis Denys
Etymology
From en enm Denis, from en fro - saint's name fro Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin la Dionysius, a masculine name literally meaning “follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”.
Pronunciation
en /ˈdɛnɪs/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dennis.wav Southern England
en ɛnɪs 2
Proper noun
~ * +
en male Ancient Greek.
1 1 I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!
en 1944 w: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!"
en patronymics.
en number of places c/USA:
en unincorporated community co/Murray County s/Georgia.
en unincorporated community co/Putnam County s/Georgia.
en unincorporated community co/Labette County s/Kansas.
en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Barnstable County s/Massachusetts.
en CDP co/Tishomingo County s/Mississippi.
en twp co/Cape May County s/New Jersey.
en CDP co/Delaware County s/Oklahoma.
en town co/Parker County s/Texas.
en unincorporated community co/Greenbrier County s/West Virginia.
en locality co/Cypress County p/Alberta c/Canada.
Derived terms
en Coln St Dennis Dennis Port,Dennisport Dennison Dyson East Dennis South Dennis St Dennis Tyson West Dennis
Related terms
en Denny
en Denise
en Dionysus, en Dionysos
en Tennyson
Translations
male given name
Bulgarian: bg Денис m
Catalan: ca Dionís m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 丹尼斯
Czech: cs Denis
Danish: da Dennis
Dutch: nl Dennis
French: fr Denis
Galician: gl Dinís
German: de Dennis, de Denis
Greek: el Ντένις transliteration from English
Greenlandic: kl Tiinasi
Hungarian: hu Dénes
Italian: it Dionisio
Japanese: ja デニス
Korean: ko 데니스
Kyrgyz: ky Денис
Lithuanian: lt Dionizas
Norwegian: no Dennis
Occitan: oc Danís m, oc Daunís m, oc Deunis m
Persian: fa دنیس denis
Polish: pl Dionizy m
Portuguese: pt Dinis m, pt Diniz m archaic, pt Dênis m Brazil only
Romanian: ro Dionisie
Russian: ru Дени́с m, ru Дэ́ннис m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Денис m
Latin: sh Denis m
Sicilian: scn Dinisi m
Slovene: sl Dionizij
Spanish: es Dionisio m
Swedish: sv Dennis
Tagalog: tl Densyo
Turkish: tr Deniz
Ukrainian: uk Деніс m
Walloon: wa Dni
Anagrams
en deinns Sinden ends in insend send in sendin' sinned
Cebuano
Etymology
From ceb en Dennis, from ceb fro - saint's name fr Denis, from ceb la Dionysius.
Proper noun
ceb noun
ceb male English < Ancient Greek
Danish
Etymology
From da en Dennis in the 20th century.
Proper noun
da male
References
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
nl Nl-Dennis.ogg
Proper noun
m
nl male Dennis
Faroese
Etymology
From fo en Dennis.
Pronunciation
fo /ˈdɛnɪs/
fo LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dennis.wav
Proper noun
fo proper noun m
fo male
Usage notes
m Dennisarson Dennisson Dennisardóttir Dennisdóttir
Declension
Dennis Dennis Dennisi Dennisar, Dennis
German
Pronunciation
de De-Dennis.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de male an English-type Denis
Related terms
de Denise
Norwegian
Proper noun
no proper noun
no male borrowed from no en - in the 20th century
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from sv en Dennis in the 20th century, from sv fro Denis, from sv la Dionȳsius, from sv grc Δῐονῡ́σῐος, from grc Δῐόνῡσος + grc -ῐος belonging to, hence meaning follower of Dionysus.
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Dennis.wav
Proper noun
c
sv male English
References