Iesus

See also: Jesus and iesus

English

Proper noun

Iesus

1. Archaic spelling of Jesus.
   • 1660, Doctour Cranmer, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Goodrick, Bishop of Ely, Dr. Skip, Bishop of Hereford, Dr. Thirlby, Bishop of Westminster, Dr. Day, Bishop of Chichester, Dr. Holbeck, Bishop of Lincoln, Dr. Ridley, Bishop of Rochester, Dr. May, Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. Taylor, Dean of Lincoln, Dr. Heyns, Dean of Exeter, Dr. Redman, Dean of Westminster, Dr. Cos, Almoner to King Edward the Sixth, & Mr. Robinson, Arch-Deacon of Leicester, The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England:

     And forthwith he came to Iesus and said, Hail master, and kissed him. And Iesus said unto him , Friend , wherefore art thou come?

   • 1670, The True Portraiture of the Church of Iesus-Christ:

     In no wise: For Iesus Christ remains alwayes first and supreme Pastor, and S. Peter and his Successors are only his Lievtenants and Vicars upon earth; and in this manner that doth rather raise Iesus Christs authority, than lessen it ; for even as it is an honor to a King to have under him Governors of Provinces, vice-Royes, Lievrenants and Generalls of Armies, to whom his Subjects pay obedience, because of the power given them by the King : so likewise it is an honor to Iesus Christ to have in the Kingdom of his Church Vicars and Lievtenents that my visibly govern his Church, and whom he hath commanded us to obey as his own self.

   • 1684, Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected Into English Metre, page 2:

     Paul a prisoner of Iesus Christ, and Timothy our brother unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow-labourer.

Anagrams

• Issue, Susie, issue, usies, ussie

Latin

Imāgō Iēsū in Sānctā Sophiā ― An icon of Jesus in the Hagia Sophia

Alternative forms

• Jesus (disyllabic, Ecclesiastical Latin)
• iħs, IHS (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (Yēšûaʿ).

Pronunciation

(trisyllabic):

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /iˈeː.suːs/, [iˈeːs̠uːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈe.sus/, [iˈɛːs̬us]
•  Hyphenation: I‧e‧sus

(disyllabic):

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯eː.suːs/, [ˈi̯eːs̠uːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈje.sus/, [ˈjɛːs̬us]
•  Hyphenation: Ie‧sus

Proper noun

Iēsūs m sg (irregular, genitive Iēsū); fourth declension

1. Jesus
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 1:1:

     initium evangeliī Iēsū Chrīstī Fīliī Deī

     the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God

Usage notes

• The nominative form is given as Iēsūs (following Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs)) rather than Iēsus in recent dictionaries, notably in the Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands (7th revised edition, 2018) and in the Dictionnaire Latin Français (2016).

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (highly irregular), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Iēsūs
Genitive	Iēsū
Dative	Iēsū
Accusative	Iēsum
Ablative	Iēsū
Vocative	Iēsū

Descendants

• → Aragonese: Chesús
• → Asturian: Xesús
• → Car Nicobarese: Yēsū
• Catalan: Jesús
• → Chinese: 耶穌／耶稣 (yēsū)
  • Mandarin: 耶穌／耶稣 (Yēsū, Yésū)
  • Cantonese: 耶穌／耶稣 (je4 sou1)
• Corsican: Gesù, Ghjesù
• → Esperanto: Jesuo
• → Finnish: Jeesus
• French: Jésus
• → Hungarian: Jézus
• → Ido: Iesu
• → Interlingua: Jesus
• → Old Irish: Íssu, Ísu
  • Irish: Íosa
  • Manx: Yeesey
  • Scottish Gaelic: Ìosa
• → Indonesian: Yesus (learned)
• → Italian: Gesù
• Icelandic: Jesús
• → Japanese: イエス (Iesu) (learned)
• → Korean: 예수 (Yesu)
• Ladino: Yeshu
• Ligurian: Gesû, Gexù
• → Middle English: Jhesus, Iesus, Ihesus, Jesus
  • English: Jesus
  • Scots: Jesus
• → Middle High German: Jesus
  • German: Jesus
• → Mirandese: Jasus
• Old Occitan: Yeshu
• Occitan: Jèsus
• Old Galician-Portuguese: Jesu, Jheso, Ihesu
  • Galician: Xesús
  • Portuguese: Jesus, Gzuis
    • → Japanese: ゼス, ゼズス
    • → Old Tupi: Îesu
• Old Lombard: Jesu
  • Lombard: Gesù
• Piedmontese: Gesù
• Romansch: Gesu
• Sardinian: Gesùs
• Sicilian: Gisù, Jisù
• → Old Swedish: Iesus
  • Swedish: Jesus
• Spanish: Jesús
• Venetian: Gesù
• → Vietnamese: Giêsu

References

• “Iesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Iesus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle French

Proper noun

Iesus

1. Jesus

See also

• Christ

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• Iēsus Christus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Iēsus.

Proper noun

Iesus m

1. Jesus

Descendants

• Swedish: Jesus