English
Etymology
Name of several early saints, particularly in the Orthodox Church, from Latin Basilius, from Ancient Greek Βασίλειος (Basíleios). Doublet of Vasilios and Vasily.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbæz.əl/
- Rhymes: -æzəl
Proper noun
Basil
- A male given name from Ancient Greek, in quiet but steady use in the UK.
1866, Eliza Tabor Stephenson, Hester's Sacrifice, volume II, Hust and Blackett, page 28:"Nonsense. I'm sure he can't have grey hair with such a pretty name as that. Basil Brooke, Basil Brooke," and May chanted the name over and over in her girlish, musical voice. "It sounds like all sorts of pleasant pictures. - -
Translations
male given name
- Albanian: Vasíli m, Vasilíu m, Vaséli m, Bazíli m, Bazilíu m
- Arabic: فاسيلي
- Armenian: Բարսեղ (Barseġ), Վասիլ (Vasil)
- Asturian: Basiliu (ast) m
- Belarusian: Васі́ль m (Vasílʹ)
- Bulgarian: Василий m (Vasilij)
- Catalan: Basili m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 巴茲爾 / 巴兹尔 (Bāzī'ěr), 巴西爾 / 巴西尔 (Bāxī'ěr)
- Chuvash: Ваҫлей (Vaślej)
- Czech: Vasil (cs) m
- Finnish: Pasi (fi)
- French: Basile (fr) m
- Galician: Basilio (gl) m
- Georgian: ვასილ (vasil)
- German: Basilius (de) m
- Greek: Βασίλειος (el) m (Vasíleios)
- Hebrew: וסילי m
- Hungarian: Bazil (hu), Vazul (hu), Vászoly (hu)
- Italian: Basilio (it) m
- Japanese: バジル (ja) (Bajiru)
- Kazakh: Бәзіл (Bäzıl)
- Korean: 바실리 (basilli)
- Latin: Basilius
- Latvian: Basilijs m
- Macedonian: Васил m (Vasil)
- Occitan: Basili m, Bausilha m
- Polish: Bazyli (pl) m
- Portuguese: Basílio (pt) m
- Romanian: Vasile (ro) m
- Russian: Васи́лий (ru) m (Vasílij) (cognate), Бэ́зил m (Bɛ́zil) (transliteration)
- Serbo-Croatian: Bazilije m, Bosiljko m, Василије m, Босиљко m
- Sicilian: Vasili m
- Slovak: Vasil m
- Slovene: Bazilij m
- Spanish: Basilio (es) m
- Ukrainian: Васи́ль m (Vasýlʹ) (cognate)
- Yiddish: וואַסילי (vasili)
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