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Eugene
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Eugène
English
Etymology
en fr Eugène, from en la Eugenius, from en grc Εὐγένιος well born, from grc εὖ good, well γενής born a certain way 1. Parallel to en eugenics. en Yevgeny Eugenius Owen.
Pronunciation
en /ˈjuː.d͡ʒin/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Eugene.wav Southern England
en /juˈd͡ʒin/ US,Canada
jēn
en iːn 2
Proper noun
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en male Ancient Greek.
en 1796 w:Robert Southey After Blenheim "Great praise the Duke of Marlb'ro' won / And our good Prince Eugene." / "Why 'twas a very wicked thing!" / Said little Wilhelmine
en 2000 David Pierce Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader . Cork University Press. 1859182585 8 Eoghan (Owen) is frequently Eugene, and our own O'Curry, though he plucked up courage to prefix the O' to his name in later life, never discarded the Eugene, which, however, is far from being a monstrosity like most of our West-Britonized names
en city/county seat co/Lane County s/Oregon c/USA.
en Chris Lehman Eugene and Springfield both announce end of Flock camera usage w:Oregon Public Broadcasting https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/06/eugene-springfield-end-flock-cameras/ 2025-12-06 The cities of Eugene and Springfield announced Friday evening that they would discontinue the use of AI-powered license plate cameras connected to the company called Flock Safety. https://web.archive.org/web/20260216011101/https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/06/eugene-springfield-end-flock-cameras/
Derived terms
en Eugenian
Related terms
en eugenics Gene gene genesis genetics Eugenia Eugenie Eugenius progeny Yevgeny Eugene poplar
Translations
male given name
Albanian: sq Eugjén m, sq Efgjén m
Armenian: hy Եվգենի
Azerbaijani: az Yevgeni m, az Yevgeniy m
Belarusian: be Яўге́н m
Latin: be Jaŭhien m łacinka
Bulgarian: bg Евге́ни, bg Евге́ний m, bg Ю́джийн m
Catalan: ca Eugeni m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 尤金 Yóujīn
Czech: cs Evžen
Dutch: nl Eugeen m
Esperanto: eo Eŭgeno, eo Eŭĝeno
French: fr Eugène m
Friulian: fur Eugjeni, fur Gjeni, fur Gjenio m
Galician: gl Uxío
Georgian: ka ევგენი
German: de Eugen m
Greek: el Ευγένιος m
Hebrew: he אֶבְגֵּנִי m Evgéni from Eastern Europe, he יוּגִ'ין Yujín from English
Hungarian: hu Jenő
Italian: it Eugenio
Japanese: ja ユージン Yūjin
Korean: ko ^유진
Latin: la Eugenius m
Latvian: lv Eižens m
Occitan: oc Eugèni m
Polish: pl Eugeniusz m
Portuguese:
Brazilian Portuguese: pt Eugênio m
European Portuguese: pt Eugénio m
Romanian: ro Eugen m, ro Eugeniu m
Cyrillic: ro Еуӂен m, ro Еуӂениу m
Russian: ru Евге́ний m cognate, ru Ю́джин m transliteration
Spanish: es Eugenio m
Swedish: sv Eugen
Ukrainian: uk Євге́н m
Vietnamese: vi Êugêniô
Welsh: cy Owain m
Indonesian: id Eguene