# Lewis
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈluːɪs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːɪs
* Hyphenation: Lew‧is
* Homophones: Lewes, Louis

### Etymology 1

From Middle English Lewis, Lowis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French Louis, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg. Doublet of Louis.

#### Proper noun

Lewis (countable and uncountable, plural Lewises)
* A male given name from Frankish.
** c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:And tell false Edward, thy supposed king, That Lewis of France is sending over masquers, To revel it with him and his new bride.
** 1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, page 42:They named me Lewis and called me Louie as though my name was Louis, and I never saw the difference until Sammy pointed it out. And even then, I still don't see much difference.
* An English surname originating as a patronymic.
* The title given to a partially apprenticed Freemason who is normally the Master or Son of a practicing Freemason; one practising or learning the degrees of Freemasonry after introduction to the degrees and before full induction or before becoming a Worshipful Brother.
* A locale in the United States:
** A census-designated place in Montezuma County, Colorado.
** An unincorporated community in Vigo County, Indiana.
** A minor city in Cass County, Iowa.
** A minor city in Edwards County, Kansas; named for journalist M. M. Lewis.
** An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri; named for landowner Howell Lewis.
** A town in Essex County, New York; named for Morgan Lewis, 3rd Governor of New York.
** A town in Lewis County, New York; named for its county, itself for Morgan Lewis.
** An unincorporated community in Granville County, North Carolina.
** A town in Essex County, Vermont; named for landowners Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis.
** A census-designated place in Clam Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin; named for founder Charles E. Lewis.
** A ghost town in California.
** A number of townships, listed under Lewis Township.

##### Derived terms

* Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method
* Holstein-Lewis fracture
* Lewis acid
* Lewis and Clark County
* Lewis base
* Lewis County
* Lewisian
* Lewisporte
* Lewis's trilemma
* Lewiston
* Lewistown
* Lewisville
* Trelewis

##### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Lewis is the 29th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531,781 individuals. Lewis is most common among White (58.2%) and Black/African American (34.8%) individuals.

### Etymology 2

An anglicization of Irish Lobhaois, itself from Old French Louis.

#### Proper noun

Lewis
* A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic].

### Etymology 3

An adopted anglicization of Welsh Llywelyn, from Old Welsh, from Proto-Brythonic *Lluɣβelen, from Proto-Celtic *Lugus + *Belinos, whose origin is disputed; see Belenus.

#### Proper noun

Lewis
* A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].

### Etymology 4

Derived from Scottish Gaelic Leòdhas, of uncertain origin; traditionally referred to Old Norse Ljóðahús, from ljóð (“song, poem”) + hús (“house”); but may be related to the Pictish name of the island recorded in Ptolemy's Geography as Λίμνου (Límnou).

#### Proper noun

Lewis
* Ellipsis of Isle of Lewis; an island in Scotland, United Kingdom.

##### Derived terms

* Lewis and Harris
* Lewis with Harris

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* Isle of Lewis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Liews, Weils, Wiles, lweis, wesil, wiles