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Dionysius Exiguus (c. 470 – c. 540) ... Pronunciation: spènser, /ˈspɛnsər ... As dispenser of provisions to the King and his household Robert was known and ...
Dionysius Exiguus (Latin for "Dionysius the Humble"; [a] Greek: Διονύσιος; c. 470 – c. 544) was a 6th-century Eastern Roman monk born in Scythia Minor. He was a member of a community of Scythian monks concentrated in Tomis (present-day Constanța , Romania ), the major city of Scythia Minor.
Like Caesar in secular contexts, Dionysius sometimes became a title in religious contexts; for example, Dionysius was the episcopal title of the primates of Malankara Church (founded by Apostle Thomas in India) from 1765 until the amalgamation of that title with Catholicos of the East in 1934.
Dionysius the Areopagite, early Christian convert and saint Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a pseudepigraphical Christian theologian and mystic; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1st century BC historian; Dionysius Exiguus, inventor of the Anno Domini dating system; Dionysius, a Greek orator and teacher of Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Dionysius did his translation at the request of Stephen, bishop of Salona, and a certain 'dearest brother Laurence' (carissimus frater Laurentius) who (as we learn from Dionysius's preface to his collection) had been 'offended by the awkwardness of the older [priscae] translation'.
The Anno Domini (AD) calendar era which numbers these years 1-9 was devised by Dionysius Exiguus in 525, and became widely used in Christian Europe in the 9th century. Dionysius assigned BC 1 to be the year he believed Jesus was born (or according to at least one scholar, AD 1).
That apostrophe you see on the O of Irish surnames is an Anglicization of a “síneadh fada,” an acute accent slanting to the right. A fada above a vowel means the vowel should be pronounced ...
Dionysian – Dionysus, of Greek mythology (as in Dionysian Mysteries); Dionysius Exiguus (as in Dionysian era) Diophantine – Diophantus (as in Diophantine equation) Dobsonian – John Dobson (as in Dobsonian telescope) Dominican – Saint Dominic (as in Dominican Order) Dostoevskian – Fyodor Dostoevsky; also Dostoyevskian; draconian – Draco