Given name & surname · also Latin
Dinisi
“related to Dionysus”
Dinisi is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Sicilian.
Original LatinDionysius
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dinisi goes back to Ancient Greek Διονύσιος, meaning “related to Dionysus.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Dinisi comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Sicilian usage, Dinisi developed from Διονύσιος.
Dinisi’s family of names
In Sicilian usage, Dinisi shares a linguistic root with the French form Denis. In Sicilian usage, Dinisi has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dennis. In Sicilian usage, Dinisi shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Dionisio.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Dinisi has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Dinisi comes from · 1 name
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Dionysiussource · Latin, English
- DennisEnglish
- Deniscognate · French
- Dionisiocognate · Spanish
- Dionigicognate · Italian
- Diniscognate · Portuguese
- Diníscognate · Galician
- Dioníscognate · Catalan
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See also 1
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