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Dionysus en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /daɪ.əˈnaɪ.səs/
  • (General-American) audio
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /daɪ.əˈniː.səs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Dionȳsus, from Ancient Greek Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos).

Meanings

  1. (Greek) The god of wine, ivy and grapes, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater. Also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".
    • DYSART: ... [Pause.] Then in the morning, I put away my books on the cultural shelf, close up the kodachrome snaps of Mount Olympus, touch my reproduction statue of Dionysus for luck—and go off to hospital to treat him for insanity. Do you see? 1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 25”, in Equus, pages 81-2:
    • All hail slain and risen God / All hail Dionysus / Come blessed Dionysus, various nam'd, bull-fac'd / Begot from the thunder, Bacchus fam'd 2009, Behemoth, Daimonos:

Forms

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Dionysos alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

Dionysian

Relateds

Bacchus · Dionysiac · Dennis

Translations (43)

grc Διόνῡσος (Greek god of wine) · et Dionysos (Greek god of wine) · de Dionysos (Greek god of wine) · hy Դիոնիսոս (Greek god of wine) · ja ディオニューソス (Greek god of wine) · cmn 狄俄倪索斯 (Greek god of wine) · uk Діо́ніс (Greek god of wine) · cs Dionýsos (Greek god of wine) · fr Dionyse (Greek god of wine) · ka დიონისოსი (Greek god of wine) · pl Dionizos (Greek god of wine) · lt Dionisas (Greek god of wine) · cmn 酒神 (Greek god of wine) · ka დიონისე (Greek god of wine) · cop ⲇⲓⲟⲛⲩⲥⲟⲥ (Greek god of wine) · sw Dioniso (Greek god of wine) · ko 디오니소스 (Greek god of wine) · ga Diníseas (Greek god of wine) · ca Dionís (Greek god of wine) · gl Dioniso (Greek god of wine) · it Dioniso (Greek god of wine) · pt Dioniso (Greek god of wine) · co Diunisu (Greek god of wine) · hu Dionüszosz (Greek god of wine) · fur Dionis (Greek god of wine) · nl Dionysos (Greek god of wine) · eo Dionizo (Greek god of wine) · es Dioniso (Greek god of wine) · frm Dionyse (Greek god of wine) · fr Dionysos (Greek god of wine) · lv Dionīss (Greek god of wine) · ru Дио́нис (Greek god of wine) · oc Dionís (Greek god of wine) · chr ᏓᏲᏂᏌ (Greek god of wine) · co Dionisu (Greek god of wine) · ro Dionis (Greek god of wine) · tr Dionysos (Greek god of wine) · fi Dionysos (Greek god of wine) · da Dionysos (Greek god of wine) · lmo Dionis (Greek god of wine) · pt Dionísio (Greek god of wine) · nl Dionysus (Greek god of wine) · ru Диони́с (Greek god of wine)