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JACOBUS

GENDER: Masculine

USAGE: Dutch, Late Roman

PRONOUNCED: yah-KO-bus (Dutch) [key]

Meaning & History

Latin form of JACOB, still used in Dutch.

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VARIANTS: Jacob, Jakob (Dutch), Iacomus (Late Roman)

DIMINUTIVES: Cobus, Coos, Jaap, Kobus, Koos, Sjaak, Sjakie (Dutch)

FEMININE FORMS: Jacoba, Jacobina, Jacobine (Dutch)

OTHER LANGUAGES: Yakub, Yaqub (Arabic), Hagop, Hakob (Armenian), Jakes (Basque), Jacob, James (Biblical), Iakobos (Biblical Greek), Yaakov (Biblical Hebrew), Iacobus (Biblical Latin), Yakov (Bulgarian), Jaume, Jaumet (Catalan), Jago (Cornish), Jakov, Jakob, Jakša (Croatian), Jakub (Czech), Ib, Jeppe (Danish), Jacob, James, Coby, Jae, Jake, Jamey, Jay, Jaycob, Jaymes, Jeb, Jem, Jemmy, Jim, Jimi, Jimmie, Jimmy, Koby (English), Jaagup, Jaakob, Jakob, Jaak (Estonian), Jaakoppi, Jaakko, Jaska (Finnish), Jacques (French), Iago (Galician), Jakob (German), Iakopa, Kimo (Hawaiian), Yaakov, Yakov, Akiba, Akiva (Hebrew), Jakab, Jákob (Hungarian), Séamus, Shamus, Sheamus, Séamas (Irish), Giacobbe, Giacomo, Jacopo, Iacopo, Lapo (Italian), Jokūbas (Lithuanian), Jakov (Macedonian), Hemi (Maori), Jakub, Kuba (Polish), Jaime, Iago, Jacó (Portuguese), Yakov, Yasha (Russian), Jacob, Jakob (Scandinavian), Hamish, Seumas (Scottish), Jakub (Slovak), Jakob, Jaka, Jaša (Slovene), Jacobo, Jaime, Yago (Spanish), Yakup (Turkish), Yakiv (Ukrainian), Iago (Welsh), Kapel, Koppel, Yankel (Yiddish)

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