Jerome (redirected from Jerome, Jerome K.)

Je·rome  (j-rm), Saint. Originally Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus. 340?-420?

Latin scholar who produced the Vulgate, the first scholarly Latin translation of the Bible from Hebrew.

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Jerome [dʒəˈrəʊm]

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1. (Biographies / Jerome, Saint (?347-?420) M, Roman, RELIGION: monk, MISC: scholar, RELIGION: saint) Latin name Eusebius Hieronymus. ?347-?420 ad, Christian monk and scholar, whose outstanding work was the production of the Vulgate. Feast day: Sept. 30

2. (Biographies / Jerome, Jerome K(lapka) (1859-1927) M, English, WRITING: humorous writer) Jerome K(lapka). 1859-1927, English humorous writer; author of Three Men in a Boat (1889)

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Jerome - (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) Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, Hieronymus, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy

Translations

Jerome [dʒəˈrəʊm] N → Jerónimo

Jerome

n → Hieronymus m