Jiménez

• Giménez, Ximénez

From Jimeno +‎ -ez, via Old Spanish Ximen from the Basque personal name Semen, from seme (“son”).

• IPA^(key): /xiˈmeneθ/ [xiˈme.neθ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /xiˈmenes/ [xiˈme.nes] (Latin America, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ʃiˈmeneθ/ [ʃiˈme.neθ] (Spain, Early Modern Spanish)
• IPA^(key): /ʃiˈmenes/ [ʃiˈme.nes] (Latin America, Philippines, Early Modern Spanish)
• Rhymes: -eneθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -enes (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: Ji‧mé‧nez

Jiménez m or f by sense

1. a surname from Old Spanish [in turn from Basque, in turn originating as a patronymic]

• → Cebuano: Jimenez
• → English: Jimenez
• → Tagalog: Jimenez

• “Jiménez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024