Ludovicus

Latin

Alternative forms

Clodovicus, Chlodovechus, Lodhuvicus, Hluduicus, Hludovvicus
Aloysius (from Occitan)

Etymology

Latinization of a Frankish or Old High German reflex of Proto-West Germanic *Hlūdawīg (see there for further details).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫuː.dɔˈwiː.kʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lu.d̪oˈviː.kus]

Proper noun

Lūdovīcus m (genitive Lūdovīcī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) a male given name, equivalent to English Louis

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Lūdovīcus	Lūdovīcī
genitive	Lūdovīcī	Lūdovīcōrum
dative	Lūdovīcō	Lūdovīcīs
accusative	Lūdovīcum	Lūdovīcōs
ablative	Lūdovīcō	Lūdovīcīs
vocative	Lūdovīce	Lūdovīcī

Descendants

Old French: Looïs, Luis
- Middle French: Loïc, Loïs
  - French: Louis (see there for further descendants)
  - → Breton: Loïc
- → Middle English: Lewis, Lowis
  - English: Lewis
- → Norman: Louis
- → Catalan: Lluís
- → Cimbrian: Luis
- → English: Louis (see there for further descendants)
- → Galician: Lois
- → German: Luis
- → Italian: Luigi, Aluigi, Aligi, Alvise, Aloise, Aloisio (prothetic variants), Luvisi, Lovisi, Lovise, Luisi, Loisi, Loise, Luigio, Luiso, Clodoveo, Ludovico (Latinism), De Luigi, De Lisi, De Lisio, Di Lisio, D'Aloisio
  - → Albanian: Luigj
  - → Sicilian: Luiggi
  - → Chinese: 路易吉 (Lùyìjí) (transliteration)
- → Occitan: Loís
- → Old Occitan: Aloys
  - → Latin: Aloysius
    - → Alemannic German: Alewiss
    - → Czech: Alois
    - → English: Aloysius
    - → German: Aloi
    - → Hungarian: Alajos
    - → Irish: Alaois
    - → Italian: Aloisio
    - → Polish: Alojzy
    - → Portuguese: Aloísio
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      → Latin script: Alojz, Alojzije
    - → Slovak: Alojz
    - → Slovene: Alojz, Alojzij
    - → Venetan: Alvise
- → Portuguese: Luís (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: Luis (see there for further descendants)
→ Armenian: Լյուդովիկոս (Lyudovikos)
→ Dutch: Ludo
→ Hungarian: Lajos
→ French: Clovis
- → English: Clovis
→ French: Ludovic
→ German: Chlodwig
→ Greek: Λουδοβίκος (Loudovíkos)
→ Italian: Ludovico, Lodovico
→ Latvian: Ludis
→ Lithuanian: Liudvikas
→ Polish: Ludwik
→ Norman: Clovis
→ Old Church Slavonic: Людвигъ (Ljudvigŭ)
→ Old French: Chlodowig, Lodhwig, Lodhuuig, Lodhuwig, Lodhuvigs
→ Romanian: Ludovic
→ Russian: Людо́вик (Ljudóvik)
→ Sardinian: Ludovicu
→ Slovak: Ľudovít
→ Swedish: Love
→ Sicilian: Lici, Luiggi