Questions about names

[bottino]

My question is about names, and their form.
Can someone comment on the following names, specifically which are equivalent, and which are distinctly different.
Dominici, Dominicus, and what if the name was Joannes Dominicus.


Then: Jacobus, Jacobo, Jacobi, I assume these are the same?

Then: Joe Bapta, Joanne Bapta, Jois, Joanni, are these all the same.

and finally Giacomo and Gio. or Gio Batista. Are these both John?

Thank you.

[erudita74]

My question is about names, and their form.
Can someone comment on the following names, specifically which are equivalent, and which are distinctly different.
Dominici, Dominicus, and what if the name was Joannes Dominicus.


Then: Jacobus, Jacobo, Jacobi, I assume these are the same?

Then: Joe Bapta, Joanne Bapta, Jois, Joanni, are these all the same.

and finally Giacomo and Gio. or Gio Batista. Are these both John?

Thank you.

Giacomo, which is Jacob or James in English, is the Italian equivalent of the Latin Jacobus, etc.

Joanne Bapta should be the Latin equivalent of the Italian Gio/GiovannBaptista-John the Baptist.

Joanne would be John in Latin, and Giovanni would be John in Italian.

Here are some websites which show Latin names in English, in case that helps:

http://www.from-ireland.net/irish-names ... In-English
http://www.freereg.org.uk/howto/latinnames.htm

[Lucap]

Dominicus is the latin nominative form of the italian name Domenico (Genitive: Dominici, dative: Dominico, accusative: Dominicum, vocative: Dominice, ablative: Dominico) and the different form depend on the context in the phrase, but the meaning is alwais the same, and so for Jacobus, Jacobi, Jacobum or Jacobo that is the italian name Giacomo.
Different is the case of Ioannes (Ioannes, Ioannis, Ioanni, Ioannem, Ioannes, Ioanne) and Joannes Baptista that are different names, the second being a composite name. Sometimes you can also find the short form of these names: so Ioannes is Io.es, Ioannis is Io.is, Dominicum is Dom.um and so on.
L.