Hieronymus

HieronymusOrigin

Word/name| Greek
Meaning| Sacred name
Other names
Related names| Geronimo, Jerónimo

Hieronymus, in English pronounced /haɪˈrɒnɪməs/ or /həˈrɒnɪməs/, is the Latin form of the Ancient Greek name Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnymos), meaning "with a sacred name". It corresponds to the English given name Jerome.

## Variants

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* Albanian: Jeronimi
* Arabic: جيروم (Jerome)
* Basque: Jeronimo
* Belarusian: Еранім (Yeranim)
* Bulgarian: Йероним (Yeronim)
* Catalan: Jeroni
* Written Chinese: 希罗尼穆斯
* Chinese Pinyin: xī luó ní mù sī
* Croatian: Jeronim
* Czech: Jeroným, Jeronýmus (archaic)
* Danish: Hieronymus
* Dutch: Hiëronymus, Jeroen
* English: Jerome, Hieronymus, Geromy, Rhonemus, Geronimo
* Esperanto: Hieronimo
* Estonian: Hieronymus
* Finnish: Hieronymus
* Flemish: Jerom
* French: Jérôme, Gérôme
* Galician Xerome
* German: Hieronymus
* Ancient Greek : Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnymos)
* Modern Greek: Ιερώνυμος (Ierónymos)
* Hebrew: הירונימוס (Hieronymus)
* Hungarian: Jeromos
* Indonesian: Hieronimus
* Interlingua: Jeronimo
* Italian: Girolamo, Gerolamo, Geronimo, Geromino
* Japanese: ヒエロニムス (Hieronimusu)
* Korean: 히에로니무스 (Hieronimuseu), 제롬 (Jerom)
* Latin: Hieronymus
* Lithuanian: Jeronimas
* Malayalam: ജെറോം
* Norwegian: Hieronymus
* Polish: Hieronim
* Portuguese: Jerónimo, Brazilian Jerônimo, or Jeronymo as an Azorian family name
* Romanian: Ieronim
* Russian: Иероним (Iyeronim)
* Sardinian: Ziròminu
* Dutch Low Saxon: Hiëronymus
* Serbian: Јероним (Jeronim)
* Slovak: Hieronym
* Spanish: Jerónimo
* Swahili: Jeromu
* Swedish: Hieronymus
* Tagalog: Jeronimo, Geronimo
* Thai: เจอโรม (Čhoerom), เยโรม (Yoerom; a historical distorted interpretation of the name)
* Ukrainian: Єронім (Yeronim), Єроним (Yeronym), Ієронім (Iyeronim)
* Vietnamese: Giêrônimô

## People with the name

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### As a given name

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* Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, better known as Saint Jerome (c. 347 – 420)
* Hiëronymus Emiliani, better known as St. Jerome Emiliani (1486–1537)
* Hieronymus of Cardia, Greek general and historian
* Hieronymus of Rhodes, Greek peripatetic philosopher of the 3rd century BC
* Hieronymus of Syracuse, Greek tyrant
* Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens
* Hieronymus, son of Charles Martel
* Hieronymus (bishop of Wrocław), early medieval Bishop of Wrocław, Poland from 1046 to 1062
* Hieronymus Bock, German botanist
* Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch artist
* Hieronymus Cardanus, also known as Girolamo Cardano or Jérôme Cardan, polymath, astrologer, gambler
* Hieronymus Cock, Flemish painter and etcher
* Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist
* Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo, Austrian Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
* Hieronymus Lotter (1497–1580), merchant, construction manager and several times mayor of Leipzig, Germany
* Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, famous recounter of tall tales, fictionalized as Baron Munchausen (1720–1797)
* Hieronymus Praetorius, German Composer
* Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German chemist
* Marcus Hieronymus Vida, 16th-century Italian poet and bishop
* Hieronymus Vietor (c. 1480–1546/47), printer in Vienna and Kraków
* Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish engraver
* Hieronymus Wolf, German historian
* Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician
* Hieronymus, pen name of Athalia Schwartz (1821-1871), Danish writer

### As a surname

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* Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus, German botanist
* Otto Hieronimus, German engineer
* Holger Hieronymus, German former football player

### Fictional characters

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* Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, a fictional character
* Charlie Hieronymus Pace, a character from the television series Lost
* Hieronymus Bump, a character from the animated fantasy television series The Owl House
* Hieronymus Frosch, a character (frog and inventor) created by Andreas H. Schmachtl [de]
* Hieronymus Fox, a character from the science-fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th century
* Hieronymus Glove from the animated American television series SpongeBob SquarePants
* Hieronymus Joseph Hacker, aka "The Hacker", the main antagonist of the animated educational television series Cyberchase.
* Hieronymus Lex, a character from the video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

## See also

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* Hieronymus machine, a pseudoscientific device
* Geronimus (disambiguation)
* Geronimo (disambiguation)
* Jerónimo (disambiguation)
* Jerome (disambiguation)
* Saint Jerome (disambiguation)
* San Geronimo (disambiguation)
* San Jerónimo (disambiguation)
* Hieronymi, a surname

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