Editing Dionysus (section)

===Meaning and variants===

Later variants include {{lang|grc-Latn|Dionūsos}} and {{lang|grc-Latn|Diōnūsos}} in [[Boeotia]]; {{lang|grc-Latn|Dien(n)ūsos}} in [[Thessaly]]; {{lang|grc-Latn|Deonūsos}} and {{lang|grc-Latn|Deunūsos}} in [[Ionia]]; and {{lang|grc-Latn|Dinnūsos}} in [[Aeolis|Aeolia]], besides other variants. A {{lang|grc-Latn|Dio-}} prefix is found in other names, such as that of the [[Dioscures]], and may derive from ''Dios'', the genitive of the name of [[Zeus]].<ref>This is the view of Garcia Ramon (1987) and Peters (1989), summarised and endorsed in Janda (2010:20).</ref>

[[Nonnus]], in his ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', writes that the name Dionysus means "Zeus-limp" and that Hermes named the new born Dionysus this, "because Zeus while he carried his burden lifted one foot with a limp from the weight of his thigh, and ''nysos'' in Syracusan language means limping".<ref name="9.20–24">[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/304/mode/2up 9.20–24].</ref> In his note to these lines, [[W. H. D. Rouse]] writes "It need hardly be said that these etymologies are wrong".<ref name="9.20–24"/> The ''[[Suda]]'', a Byzantine encyclopedia based on classical sources, states that Dionysus was so named "from accomplishing [διανύειν] for each of those who live the wild life. Or from providing [διανοεῖν] everything for those who live the wild life."<ref>''[[Suda]]'' s.v. [http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?db=REAL&search_method=QUERY&login=guest&enlogin=guest&user_list=LIST&page_num=1&searchstr=delta,1185&field=adlerhw_gr&num_per_page=1 Διόνυσος] .</ref>