Louis

See also: louis

English

Etymology

A French royal name, from Latin Ludovicus, from Frankish *Hlōdowig, *Hlūdawīg. Cognate with German Ludwig. Doublet of Lewis.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /luːi/
(US) IPA^(key): /lu.ɪs/

Proper noun

Louis

A male given name.
- 1849 Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter XXXVI:
  "It is hardly a week since you called me your future husband, and treated me as such; now I am once more the tutor for you: I am addressed as Mr. Moore, and Sir; your lips have forgotten Louis."
  
  "No, Louis, no: it is an easy, liquid name, not soon forgotten."
A female given name

Related terms

(variants): Lewis, Louie, Aloysius
(feminine forms): Louise, Louisa

Descendants

→ Bengali: লুইস (luis)
→ Hawaiian: Lui
→ Maori: Ruihi, Rewi
→ Persian: لوئیس‎‎‎ (Luis)

Translations

male given name

Albanian: Luigj m
Armenian: Լուդովիկոս (Ludovikos), Լյուդովիկոս (Lyudovikos), Լուի (Lui)
Basque: Koldobika (eu), Koldo (eu)
Bengali: লুইস (lu'is)
Catalan: Lluís (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 路易 (zh) (Lùyì)
Czech: Ludvík (cs) m
Danish: Ludvig
Dutch: Lodewijk (nl)
Esperanto: Ludoviko
Faroese: Ludvík m
Finnish: Ludvig (fi) (historical only)
French: Louis (fr) m
Middle French: Lois
Galician: Lois (gl) m
Georgian: ლუი (lui)
German: Ludwig (de) m
Greek: Λουδοβίκος m (Loudovíkos)
Hawaiian: Lui
Hebrew: לוּאִי‎ (he) (lúi)
Hungarian: Lajos (hu)

Icelandic: Lúðvík (is)
Irish: Lughaidh m
Italian: Luigi (it) m, Ludovico (it) m
Japanese: ルイ (ja) (Rui)
Latin: Ludovicus (la), Aloysius m (New Latin)
Latvian: Ludvigs m
Lithuanian: Liudvikas
Maori: Ruihi, Rewi
Norwegian: Ludvig (no)
Occitan: Loïs m
Old Church Slavonic: Людвигъ (Ljudvigŭ)
Persian: لوئیس‎ (Luis)
Polish: Ludwik (pl)
Portuguese: Luís (pt), Luiz (pt)
Rhine Franconian: Ludwich
Russian: Луи́ (ru) m (Luí), Людо́вик m (Ljudóvik) (historical)
Slovak: Ľudovít m
Spanish: Luis (es) m
Swedish: Ludvig (sv)
Ukrainian: Луї m (Lují), Людовик m (Ljudóvyk) (historical)
Vietnamese: Luy

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} Луи (Lui)
Galician: ^{(please verify)} Luís (gl)
Occitan: ^{(please verify)} Loís
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} Ludovic (ro)

Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} Luj
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} Луј
Slovene: ^{(please verify)} Ludvik (sl)

Noun

Louis (plural Louises)

(historical numismatics) Alternative letter-case form of louis: various gold and silver coins issued by the French kings.

Anagrams

Lious

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French Louis. Doublet of Lodewijk.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /luˈwi/
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Louis ?

A male given name, variant of Lodewijk.

Derived terms

Louise, Louisa

French

Etymology

From Middle French Loïs, Loïc, from Old French Looïs, Luis, Lodhwig, from Latin Ludovicus < Clodovicus, from Frankish *Hlōdowig, *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud, famous”) + *wīgą (“battle”). Doublet of Ludovic, a borrowing, as well as Clovis. Romance cognates include Italian Luigi, Spanish Luis (taken from Old French). Compare also the Germanic cognates, Dutch Lodewijk, German Ludwig.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lwi/, /lu.i/

Proper noun

Louis m

A male given name.
A patronymic surname.

Related terms

Descendants

→ Armenian: Լուի (Lui)
→ Chinese: 路易 (Lùyì)
→ Dutch: Louis
→ German: Louis, Luis
→ Georgian: ლუი (lui)
→ Hebrew: לוּאִי‎ (lúi)
→ Japanese: ルイ (Rui)
→ Russian: Луи́ (Luí)
→ Ukrainian: Луї (Luji)
→ Vietnamese: Luy

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French Louis. Doublet of Ludwig.

Proper noun

Louis

A male given name, variant of Ludwig.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French, from Frankish *Hlōdowig; see German Ludwig for more information.

Proper noun

Louis m

(continental Normandy) A male given name

Related terms

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