hieronymus

1. 1.

   (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420)

   SynonymsJeromeSaint JeromeSt. JeromeEusebius HieronymusEusebius Sophronius Hieronymus

   BroadertheologianChurch FathersaintDoctor of the Church

   Roman Catholic

Other forms of hieronymus

plural

hieronymuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hieronymus

What does hieronymus mean?

hieronymus means "(Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420)".

How many syllables are in hieronymus?

hieronymus has 4 syllables: hie-ro-ny-mus. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for hieronymus?

Close synonyms include Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hieronymus a common word?

hieronymus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.