The corpus record — Latin

Jēsus

Jēsus · m

Jesus

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What it meant

Jēsus — Lewis & Short

Jēsus (also ĭēsus, trisyl.), u, m., = *)ihsou=s, a Hebrew name; esp.,

I Jesus: venturum praemisso nomine Jesum, Sedul. 1, 153; Lact. 4, 12, 6; Arat. Act. Apost. 1, 274: Nazara, cui felix patria est et nomen lësus, Juvenc. 2, 106.—

II Joshua, Prud. Cath. 12, 173; Vulg. Act. Apost. 7, 45; id. Heb. 4, 8; Lact. 4, 5, 6 al.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.