Stephanus
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃtɛfanʊs/
Proper noun
Stephanus m (proper noun, strong, genitive Stephanus' or Stephani)
- (biblical) Stephen the protomartyr.
Derived terms
- Stefan, Stephan (given name)
- Stephanus-Steinigen
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos, “crown”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈstɛ.pʰa.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈst̪ɛː.fa.nus]
Proper noun
Stephanus m (genitive Stephanī); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Stephanus | Stephanī |
| genitive | Stephanī | Stephanōrum |
| dative | Stephanō | Stephanīs |
| accusative | Stephanum | Stephanōs |
| ablative | Stephanō | Stephanīs |
| vocative | Stephane | Stephanī |
Descendants
- Franco-Provençal: Étièvo m
- Old French: Estiene m, Estienne, Estiefne, Estievne, Estievene (Anglo-Norman)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Estevão m
- Italian: Stefano m
- Old Occitan:
- Serbo-Croatian: Stjepan, Stȉpān (Ikavian), Stevan, Stȅfān, Stjȅpān, Stȉpān, Stȅpān, Šćèpān, Štȅfān, Ȉštvān
- Sicilian: Stèfanu m
- Spanish: Esteban m, Estevan
- → Dutch: Stefan
- →? English: Stephan, Steve
- → French: Stéphane m (learned)
- → German: Stefan m, Stephan
- → Hungarian: István
- → Irish: Stiofán m, Stafán, Steafán, Steaphán, Stiabhna, Stiana, Stiophán
References
- “Stephanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Stephanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.