Given name & surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Dinis
Dinis is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Dinis comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Dinis developed from Διονύσιος.
Dinis’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Dinis shares a linguistic root with the Sicilian form Dinisi. In Portuguese usage, Dinis has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dennis. In Portuguese usage, Dinis has a related form in DINIZ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dinis has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Dinis comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dinis
- Dinis DiasPortuguese explorer
- Dinis Almeidaassociation football playerborn 1995
- Dinis VitalFootballer (1932-2014)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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