# Iesus
## English
### Proper noun

Iesus
* 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
### Alternative forms

* Jēsūs (disyllabic, Ecclesiastical Latin)
* iħs, IHS (abbreviation)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation
#### (trisyllabic)

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

#### (disyllabic)

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

### Proper noun

Iēsūs m sg (genitive Iēsū); irregular, second declension
* 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 Deīthe beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God

#### Usage notes

* The nominative and accusative forms are given as Iēsūs and Iēsūm in recent dictionaries, following Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs) and Ἰησοῦν (Iēsoûn); notably in the Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands (7th revised edition, 2018) and in the Dictionnaire Latin Français (2016).
* The declension is highly irregular, as it reflects the Greek usage of appending a sigma in the nominative and a nu in the accusative to foreign male nouns, if licit by sound laws, to render them declinable. Some dictionaries may categories the Latin word to be second-declension, some others to be fourth-declension, yet considering the genitive form it cannot be part of any Latin declension.

#### Declension

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

#### 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
** Central Franconian:
*** >? Hunsrik: Jesses
** German: Jesus, Jhesus, JEsus
*** → Hunsrik: 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
* Old Spanish: Jesu, Jeso
** Spanish: Jesús
* Venetan: 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
* Jesus

### See also

* Christ

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* Iesus Christus

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Iēsūs.

### Proper noun

Iesus m
* Jesus

#### Descendants

* Swedish: Jesus