Jeremias

New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.

• IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒɛɹəˈmaɪəs/

Jeremias

1. (biblical) New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 16:14:

     Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremias or one of the prophets.

2. A male given name from Hebrew, more common in the forms Jeremy and Jeremiah.

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Jeremias

1. (biblical) Jeremiah; Jeremias.
2. a male given name

of biblical origin

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeremiɑs/, [ˈje̞re̞ˌmiɑ̝s̠]
• Rhymes: -iɑs
• Syllabification^(key): Je‧re‧mi‧as

Jeremias

1. a male given name

• (modern biblical form) Jeremia
• (given names) Jarkko, Jarmo, Jarno, Jere, Jorma

• Jeremias is the 369^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 851 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,905 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 5 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

variant of Jeremia

• IPA^(key): [jeʁeˈmiːas]

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Jeremias

1. a male given name

• Hiē̆rē̆mī̆ās, Īē̆remīās

From the Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας (Ieremías), from the Biblical Hebrew יִרְמְיָה.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i̯eː.reːˈmiː.aːs/, [i̯eːreːˈmiːäːs̠] or IPA^(key): /i̯eːˈre.mi.aːs/, [i̯eːˈrɛmiäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /je.reˈmi.as/, [jereˈmiːäs] or IPA^(key): /jeˈre.mi.as/, [jeˈrɛːmiäs]

Jērē̆mī̆ās m sg (genitive Jērē̆mī̆ae); first declension

1. a male given name from Hebrew — famously held by:
   1. (biblical) Jeremiah (major prophet of the Hebrew Bible)
2. (biblical, more fully “Liber Jeremiae”) (Book of) Jeremiah (book of the Old Testament)

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

• “Jērĕmīas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Jērēmīās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 868/1.

• Liber Jeremiae on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

variant of Jeremia

Jeremias

1. a male given name

Borrowed from Latin Jēremīas, from Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας (Ieremías), from Hebrew יִרְמְיָה.

Jeremias m

1. (biblical) Jeremiah (a prophet)
2. (biblical) Jeremiah (book of the Old Testament)
3. a male given name, equivalent to English Jeremiah

variant of Jeremia

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Jeremias c (genitive Jeremias)

1. a male given name