Word.ws English Dictionary

Jesu

/ˈd͡ʒiː.zuː/

Jesu proper noun: jesus.

Proper noun

Jesu

  1. (archaic, poetic) Jesus
    • S. Baring-Gould
      Jesu, give the weary / Calm and sweet repose.

Origin of Jesu

From Middle English Jesu, from the vocative (and genitive, etc) form Jēsū of Latin Jēsūs, and also reflective of the vocative (and genitive, etc) form Ἰησοῦ (Iēsoû) of Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs). Gradually displaced as the normal form by Jesus in the Middle English and Early Modern English period, but retained or restored especially in a few religious texts on the model of Latin and Greek.

Questions about Jesu

What does Jesu mean?
Jesu means jesus.
What part of speech is Jesu?
Jesu is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jesu?
Jesu is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒiː.zuː/.

Words near Jesu in the dictionary

  1. jestrums
  2. jests
  3. jesture
  4. jestures
  5. jesty
  6. Jesu
  7. Jesuate
  8. Jesuates
  9. Jesuism
  10. Jesuit
  11. Jesuit's bark

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Jesu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Jesu.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jesu. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.