Given name · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Dinís
Dinís is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Galician.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Dinís comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Galician usage, Dinís developed from Διονύσιος.
Dinís’s family of names
In Galician usage, Dinís shares a linguistic root with the Sicilian form Dinisi. In Galician usage, Dinís has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dennis. In Portuguese usage, Dinís has a conventional equivalent in the French form Denis.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dinís has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Dinís comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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