Moyses

Borrowed from Latin Mō̆ȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê).

Moyses

1. Synonym of Moses (the Hebrew prophet)

Moyses m (proper noun, strong, genitive Moysis)

1. obsolete form of Moses (“the biblical figure Moses”)

• Mōsēs, Mō̆īsēs, Moesēs

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from earlier disyllabic Μωυσῆς (Mōusês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê). Doublet of Mōsēs.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [moːˈyː.seːs], [moˈyː.seːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈiː.s̬es]

Mō̆ȳsēs m sg (genitive Mō̆ȳsī or Mō̆ȳsēī or Mō̆ȳsis or Mō̆ȳsēn or Mō̆ȳseōs); irregular

1. (biblical) a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Moses

Irregular noun, singular only.

• → Breton: Moizez
• → Catalan: Moisès
• → Czech: Mojžíš
• → Old Irish: Moysi
• → French: Moïse
• → Friulian: Moisès
• → Galician: Moisés
• → Polish: Mojżesz
• → Portuguese: Moisés
• → Slovak: Mojžiš
• → Slovene: Mojzes
• → Spanish: Moisés

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

From Latin Mō̆ȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from earlier Μωυσῆς (Mōusês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê)

Moyses m

1. Moses
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Moyses, ðurh Godes mihte, āwende eal heora wæter tō rēadum blōde, and hē āfylde eal heora land mid froggon, and siððan mid gnættum, eft mid hundes lūsum, ðā flugon into heora mūðe and heora næsðyrlum; and sē Ælmihtiġa ðone mōdiġan cyning mid þām eaðelicum ġesċeaftum swā gėswencte...

     Moses, through the power of God, turned all their water into red blood, and filled all of their land with frogs, and then with gnats, and afterwards with dogflies, which flew into their mouths and their nostrils; the Almighty punished their proud king in that way with every kind of creature...

Moyses m

1. obsolete spelling of Moisés