Jesse
Appearance
See also: Jessé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛs.i/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophones: Jessie, Jessi
Proper noun
[edit]Jesse (plural Jesses)
- (biblical) The son of Obed and the father of king David.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:: 1 Samuel 17:12:
- Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
- 1882, Jesse James (folk song):
- Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man, / He robbed the Glendale train. / He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor, / He'd a hand and a heart and a brain.
- 1882, Jesse James (folk song):
- A female given name, variant of Jessie.
- 1985, Alice Munro, The Progress of Love, Chatto&Windus, published 1987, →ISBN:
- We had decided to change the spelling of our names. Mine was to become Jesse instead of Jessie, and hers was to be Meribeth, not MaryBeth. We signed these names to the test papers we turned in at school.
The teacher waved my paper in the air. "I can't give a mark to this person, because I don't know who this person is," she said. "Who is this Jesse?" She spelled the name out loud. "That is a boy's name. Does anybody here know a boy named Jesse?"
Related terms
[edit]- Jess, Jessie
- give someone Jesse (to scold or beat)
Translations
[edit]biblical father of David
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male given name
Noun
[edit]Jesse (plural Jesses)
- (architecture) A representation of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick.
References
[edit]- “Jesse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Dutch
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jesse m
- a male given name
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]The Vulgate Latin name Iesse, Jesse was known in medieval Finland, but the modern revival of the name is much due to English Jesse.
Proper noun
[edit]Jesse
- a male given name, popular since the 1980s
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Jesse (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Jesse | Jesset | |
genitive | Jessen | Jessejen | |
partitive | Jesseä | Jessejä | |
illative | Jesseen | Jesseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Jesse | Jesset | |
accusative | nom. | Jesse | Jesset |
gen. | Jessen | ||
genitive | Jessen | Jessejen Jessein rare | |
partitive | Jesseä | Jessejä | |
inessive | Jessessä | Jesseissä | |
elative | Jessestä | Jesseistä | |
illative | Jesseen | Jesseihin | |
adessive | Jessellä | Jesseillä | |
ablative | Jesseltä | Jesseiltä | |
allative | Jesselle | Jesseille | |
essive | Jessenä | Jesseinä | |
translative | Jesseksi | Jesseiksi | |
abessive | Jessettä | Jesseittä | |
instructive | — | Jessein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Jesse is the 64th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 11,108 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,288 more), and also belongs to 17 female individuals (and as a middle name to 6 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Etymology 2
[edit]Finnish Jeesus.
Proper noun
[edit]Jesse (slang)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Jesse (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Jesse | Jesset | |
genitive | Jessen | Jessejen | |
partitive | Jesseä | Jessejä | |
illative | Jesseen | Jesseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Jesse | Jesset | |
accusative | nom. | Jesse | Jesset |
gen. | Jessen | ||
genitive | Jessen | Jessejen Jessein rare | |
partitive | Jesseä | Jessejä | |
inessive | Jessessä | Jesseissä | |
elative | Jessestä | Jesseistä | |
illative | Jesseen | Jesseihin | |
adessive | Jessellä | Jesseillä | |
ablative | Jesseltä | Jesseiltä | |
allative | Jesselle | Jesseille | |
essive | Jessenä | Jesseinä | |
translative | Jesseksi | Jesseiksi | |
abessive | Jessettä | Jesseittä | |
instructive | — | Jessein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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