Borrowed fromLatinIēsūs, fromAncient GreekἸησοῦς(Iēsoûs), fromHebrewישוע(yeshúa).
Jesús m
- Jesus
Jesús
- bless you,gesundheit (said after asneeze)
Borrowed fromLatinIēsūs, fromAncient GreekἸησοῦς(Iēsoûs), fromHebrewישוע.
Jesús m (proper noun,genitive singularJesú)
- Jesus
Declension ofJesús (sg-only masculine)| indefinite singular |
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| nominative | Jesús |
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| accusative | Jesú,Jesúm1 |
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| dative | Jesú |
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| genitive | Jesú |
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Note: this declension, highly irregular and unique in Icelandic, is taken directly from the Latin declension (see the Latin entryIēsūs). Originally, the accusative was alwaysJesúm, but in recent times it is more commonlyJesú, under influence from the other case forms. Also note the distinct vocative form,Jesú, whereas for other Icelandic words the nominative form is normally used in vocative constructions.
FromLatinIēsūs, fromAncient GreekἸησοῦς(Iēsoûs), fromHebrewישוע(yēšūaʿ).
The exceptional use ofJesús as a first given name in Spanish-speaking countries contrasts with other historically Catholic or otherwise Christian societies. It has been linked to the widespread use of the nameمُحَمَّد(muḥammad,“Muhammad”) by Muslims, whose custom would have induced their Christian peers to do something comparable[1][2] during theArab reign in Muslim Spain, from the 8th to the 15th century. Other hypotheses are its alleged use byNew Christians from the 15th century onwards to integrate into Catholic society; the influence on Spanish Catholics of the rise in the devotion to Jesus' name led bymendicant orders and later by theJesuits in the 14th and 15th centuries;[3] and the Spanish custom of using religious names for orphaned children in Catholic institutions, their names being passed on to their descendants.[4][5]However, those hypotheses are unlikely. It was only in the late 19th century that the nameJesús was popularised in Spain,[6] appearing on registers just five times in 1800-1820, but 576 times in 1880-1900, with similar results for Mexico, where it was first recorded in 1852. Hence, the use of the nameJesús is likely attributable to the reaction of some militant Catholic forces to the efforts towards secularisation and to the anticlericalism prevalent in the period.[6]
Cognate withSicilianGisuzzu.
Jesús
- bless you,gesundheit (said after asneeze)(The addition ofquotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- Synonym:salud
Jesús m
- (Christianity)Jesus
- 1602,Casiodoro de Reina,La Santa Biblia, rev.,Marcos 1:9
Y aconteció en aquellos días, queJesús vino de Nazaret de Galilea, y fué bautizado por Juan en el Jordán.- And it happened in those days, thatJesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
- a malegiven name, mainly popular in Mexico and the Spanish-speaking USA
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2024 January 5, Daniel Esparza, “A look at the name “Jesus” across cultures and time”, inAleteia[1], archived fromthe original on 07/08/2025:"Still others suggest that Spanish Christians living alongside Muslim communities were influenced by the Islamic tradition of honoring the Prophet Muhammad by naming their sons."
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2024 March 1, Matthias Altmann and Madeleine Spendier, “Why (almost) nobody is called Jesus – except in Spanish-speaking countries”, inKatholisch[2], archived fromthe original on 14/05/2025:"And a third hypothesis is that the Christians on the Iberian Peninsula were used to their Muslim contemporaries naming their sons after the Prophet Mohammed. This would have lowered the inhibition threshold for them to name their own sonsJesus."
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2024 January 3, Matthias Altmann and Madeleine Spendier, “Why (almost) nobody is called Jesus – except in Spanish-speaking countries”, inKatholisch[3], archived fromthe original on 2025/05/14:"Although there are no definite findings on this, there are several hypotheses, says the Fribourg church historian Mariano Delgado, who himself comes from Spain. One of them has its origins in the fact that in the 14th and 15th centuries, the mendicant orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, and later the Jesuits, led to a surge in the veneration of the nameJesus. On the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Spain, the veneration of the name ofJesus was particularly intense - thusJesus developed into a common first name for boys."
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2024 May 1, Daniel Esparza, “A look at the name “Jesus” across cultures and time”, inAleteia[4], archived fromthe original on 2025/08/07:"Others refer to the common practice (at least in Spain) of naming abandoned children found in convents “Jesus,” giving the name connotations of compassion and second chances."
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2024 January 3, Matthias Altmann and Madeleine Spendier, “Why (almost) nobody is called Jesus – except in Spanish-speaking countries”, inKatholisch[5], archived fromthe original on 2025/05/14:"According to [Mariano] Delgado [Professor of Medieval and Modern Church History at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland], a second hypothesis is that it was precisely in Spain that the custom developed of giving the nameJesus to foundlings abandoned at monastery doors. Through family traditions, the name was reassigned from generation to generation."
- ↑6.06.1
2025 October 19, Eugene Volokh, “Jesus Told Me the Answer”, inReason[6], archived fromthe original on 24/01/2025:" ’Jesús‘ became a relatively common name in Spain in the late [19th century], at the time when there was a strong revival of militant Catholicism as a reaction to secularization forces from the left-wing."
