Jonas
English
Proper noun
Jonas
- A male given name of Biblical derivation; the New Testament Greek form of Jonah.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 12:40::
- For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Danish
Etymology
From Biblical Jonas (=Jonah), also used as a medieval Latinization of Danish Jon (“John”).
Related terms
- (surnames) Jonassen, Jonasen
German
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈjoː.naːs/
Declension
First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ās.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Jōnās |
Genitive | Jōnae |
Dative | Jōnae |
Accusative | Jōnān |
Ablative | Jōnā |
Vocative | Jōnā |
References
- Jonas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Lithuanian
Norwegian
Etymology
From Latin Jonas, Ancient Greek Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs), from Hebrew, cognate with the English Jonas and Jonah.
Usage notes
- The most common given name of boys born in Norway in the 2000-2009 decade.
Related terms
- (male given names) Jona
- (surnames) Jonassen
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʒo.nɐs/
Swedish
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek equivalent of English Jonah, ultimately from Hebrew, also a short form of Johannes. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1303.
Proper noun
Jonas c (genitive Jonas)
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 59 573 males with the given name Jonas living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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