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Louis, a protagonist of the Japanese manga series Beastars; Louis de Pointe du Lac, character in the Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice; Louis the Alligator, a character from the animated film The Princess and the Frog; Louis Creed, the protagonist in Stephen King's 1983 novel Pet Sematary and its 1989 and 2019 film adaptations
Luis is a given name.It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name Hludowig or Chlodovech.Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: Luís (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, Lluís in Aragonese and Catalan, while Luiz is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil.
In Provence, in southeastern France, many think that it actually is "the old Provençal form of Louis", [citation needed] in which case it means "famed warrior". [ 1 ] Another less well accepted derivation is from Loukas , a Greek name meaning "from Lucania " (whose usual French form is Luc (see Luke (name) ).
Without further ado, here are 50 beautiful Spanish baby names for boys. (Just remember that the “J”s are pronounced as “H”s.) 150 Uncommon Baby Names to Help Your Child Stand Out from the ...
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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Alois (Latinized Aloysius) is an Old Occitan form of the name Louis. Modern variants include Aloïs ( French ), Aloys ( German ), Alois ( Czech ), Alojz ( Slovak , Slovenian , Croatian ), Alojzy ( Polish ), Aloísio ( Portuguese , Spanish , Italian ), Alajos ( Hungarian ), and Aloyzas ( Lithuanian ).
Louise and Luise are, respectively, French and German feminine forms of the given name Louis. Louise has been regularly used as a female name in English speaking countries since the middle of the 19th century. It has ranked among the top 100 names given to girls in France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and Wales in recent years.