English

Proper noun

Dionysius

1. An Ancient Greek male given name
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts 17:34:

     Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Translations

Latin

Proper noun

Dionȳsius m ‎(genitive Dionȳsiī); second declension

1. A male given name equivalent to Dennis.
2. tyrant of Syracuse

Inflection

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• Dionysius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Dionysius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.