Jerome

Jerónimo or Gerónimo is a proper name from the ancient Greek Ἱερώνυμος (Hierốnymos) formed from ἱερός (hierόs) (sacred) and ὄνομα (ónoma) (name).

Variations

• Feminine: Jerónima, Geronima.
• Diminutive: Jeronimito, Jeronimillo.

Variations in other languages

• Spanish: Jerome, Geronimo.
• Albanés: Jeronimo.
• German: Hieronymus.
• English: Jerome.
• Alsaciano: Jerless.
• Catalan: Jeroni.
• Euskera: Jeronimo.
• Croatian: Jeronim.
• Portuguese: Jerome.
• Esperanto: Hieronimo.
• French: Jérôme, Gerôme.
• Gallego: Xerome.
• Hungarian: Jeromos.
• Italian: Girolamo, Geronimo.
• Japanese: أمان (Jerōmu).
• Latin: Hieronymus.
• Leton: Hieronīms.
• Lithuanian: Jeronimas.
• Dutch: Jeroen.
• Occitan: Jiròni.
• Poitevin: Jhirome.
• Polish: Hieronim.
• Romanian: Ieronim.
• Russian: Ironim.
• Czech: Jeroným.
• Ukrainian: І).ронім (Ièronim).

Historical figures

• Jerónimo de Cardia, Greek historian and military, contemporary of Macedonian king Alexander the Great.
• Jerónimo de EstridónHoly Christian, first Latin translator of the Bible.
• Jerome Bonaparte, younger brother of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Jerónimo de Perigord, first bishop of the diocese of Salamanca after the Christian reconquest of it. He was a trusted man of the Cid and Bishop of Valencia after the conquest of this city by the Champion.
• GeronimoAmerindian leader of the Apache tribe, who led numerous attacks against the U.S. army at the end of the centuryXIX.
• Jerónimo UseraFather Founder of the Order of Religious of the Sisters of Love of God.
• Jerónimo de Aguilar, conqueror of Mexico, one of the first Spaniards in Yucatan.
• Jerome Arozamena, Vice President of the Spanish Constitutional Court between 1980 and 1986.
• Jerónimo Treviño, Mexican military, fought in the War of Reform and the French Intervention; he was governor of Nuevo León on several occasions.
• Leonardo Castellaniwith his pseudonym Jerónimo of the King, an Argentine writer and priest.