DENNISとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Denis, Denys

語源

From 中期英語 Denis, from Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius, a masculine name literally meaning “follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɛnɪs/
• 韻: -ɛnɪs

固有名詞

Dennis

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!

   • 1944, Mazo de la Roche, The Building of Jalna, Little,Brown&co:

     Each disliked the choice of the other. "Charles is a stern name," she affirmed. "Nonsense," said Philip. "It's as agreeable a name as there is. Dennis sounds like a comical Irish story." "You just show your bad feeling when you say such a thing," she retorted. "'T is a grand name!"

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Murray County, Georgia.
   2. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Georgia.
   3. An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas.
   4. A town and census-designated place therein, in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
   5. A census-designated place in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
   6. A township in Cape May County, New Jersey.
   7. A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
   8. A town in Parker County, Texas.
   9. An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
4. A locality in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.

派生語

• Coln St Dennis
• St Dennis

関連する語

• Denny
• Denise
• Dionysus, Dionysos
• Tennyson

アナグラム

• Sinden, ends in, insend, send in, sendin', sinned