Latin

Ιmāgō Iēsū in Sancta Sophia‎ ― An image of Jesus in Hagia Sophia

Alternative forms

• Jēsus

Proper noun

Iēsus m ‎(variously declined, genitive Iēsū); fourth declension, irregular declension

1. Jesus
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Marcus 1:1

     initium ēvangeliī Iēsū Christī Fīliī Deī‎

     the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God

Declension

Highly irregular, but often considered to belong to the fourth declension.

Descendants

References

• Iesus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Iesus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Middle French

Proper noun

Iesus

1. Jesus

See also

• Christ

Gothic

Romanization

iēsus

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌴𐍃𐌿𐍃