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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James. · One of two Apostles, James the Greater and James the Less, often identified with James, brother of Jesus. · A male given name from Hebrew popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name. · An English surname originating as a patronymic.
The English New Testament form of Jacob, from Middle English James, from Old French James, from Vulgar Latin Iācōmus, spoken and altered pronunciation of Latin Iācōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “May He Heel”), from the third-person singular masculine imperfective form of the Semitic verb "to heel" (with various meanings), in turn from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel of the foot”). Doublet of Jacques, Jacob, Iago, Jago, Yago, Hamish, Seamus, Tiago, Santiago, and Yaakov. In reference to the Ecuadorian island, a modification of the earlier name Duke of York's Island after its eponymous duke's coronation as James II of England. See Occitan Jacme for an intermediary between Old French James and Catalan Jaume.
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- Derivation mentionJamesenm
- Derivation mentionJamesfro
- Derivation mentionIācōbusla
- Derivation mentionἸάκωβοςgrc
- Doublet mentionJacquesen
- Doublet mentionJacoben
- Doublet mentionIagoen
- Doublet mentionJagoen
- Doublet mentionYagoen
- Doublet mentionHamishen
- Doublet mentionSeamusen
- Doublet mentionTiagoen
- Doublet mentionSantiagoen
- Doublet mentionYaakoven
- Cognate mentionJacmeoc
- Cognate mentionJaumeca
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