24-1429: Josephson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Joseph ". Notable people with the surname include: Andy Josephson (born 1964), American lawyer and politician Brian David Josephson (born 1940), Welsh physicist Duane Josephson (1942–1997), American baseball player Erland Josephson (1923–2012), Swedish actor and author Erik Josephson (1864–1929), Swedish architect Ernst Josephson (1851–1906), Swedish painter Ian Josephson , Canadian judge Julien Josephson (1881–1959), American motion picture screenwriter Karen Josephson (born 1964), American swimmer Les Josephson (1942–2020), American football player Mark Josephson (1943–2017), American cardiac electrophysiologist Matthew Josephson (1899–1978), American journalist and author Samantha Josephson (died 2019), American murder victim Sarah Josephson (born 1964), American swimmer Timothy Josephson , American politician Mark Josephson (entrepreneur) (born 1972), American entrepreneur and Executive coach See also [ edit ] Josephson effect , used in quantum-mechanical circuits, with related terms: Josephson energy Josephson penetration depth Josephson vortex Pi Josephson junction Josefsson Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), Swiss sculptor [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
48-521: A different pronunciation under exactly the same spelling. The Spanish pronunciation is [xoˈse] . In Castilian Spanish, the initial ⟨J⟩ is similar to the German ⟨ch⟩ in the name Bach and Scottish Gaelic and Irish ⟨ch⟩ in loch , though Spanish ⟨j⟩ varies by dialect . Historically, the modern pronunciation of the name José in Spanish
72-454: A diminutive of Yosef or Yossef (Hebrew: יוֹסֵף). Both the Spanish and Portuguese feminine written forms of the name are Josefa , pronounced [xoˈsefa] in Spanish, and [ʒuˈzɛfɐ] in Portuguese. The name José also occurs in feminine name composites (e.g. Maria José , Marie-José ). Josée is a French feminine first name, pronounced [ʒoze] , relates to
96-509: Is Jacob 's eleventh son and Rachel 's first son, and known in the Hebrew Bible as Yossef ben- Yaakov . In the New Testament the most notable two are Joseph , the husband of Mary , the mother of Jesus ; and Joseph of Arimathea , a secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in which Jesus was buried. The Bible offers two explanations for the origins of the name Yosef : first, it
120-407: Is a feminine given name and is pronounced [joːˈseː] ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name Josina and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name Johanna . In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to,
144-508: Is a repetition of the last syllable of the earlier form Josep . (Popular belief attributes the origin of Pepe to the abbreviation of pater putativus , P.P., recalling the role of St Joseph in predominantly Catholic Spanish-speaking countries.) In Hispanic America , the diminutives Cheché and Chepe also occur, as in Colombian soccer player José Eugenio ("Cheché") Hernández and Mexican soccer player José ("Chepe") Naranjo . In Portuguese,
168-496: Is compared to the word asaf from the root /'sp/, ' taken away ' : "And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach"; Yosef is then identified with the similar root /ysp/, meaning ' add ' : "And she called his name Joseph; and said, The L ORD shall add to me another son." The Jewish Encyclopedia says that it is a theophoric name referencing the Tetragrammaton , and in fact his name
192-506: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Joseph (name) Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef ( יוֹסֵף ). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef ", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries . In Portuguese and Spanish ,
216-476: Is in fact phonetically the same as in French, where the name José also exists and the pronunciation is similar, aside from obvious vowel variation and language-specific intonation. The French given name José , pronounced [ʒoze] , is an old vernacular form of the French name Joseph , and is also popular under the feminine form Josée . The masculine form is current as a given name, or as short for Joseph as
240-522: Is pronounced [ˈjoːseː] , which is a feminine given name in its own right, sometimes also used as short for the feminine name Josina . Examples are Olympic swimmer José Damen and pop singer José Hoebee . Josephine and Joséphine are in use in English-speaking countries, while Josefine is popular in Western Europe. One of the common Spanish diminutives of the name is Pepe , which
264-536: Is pronounced as [ʒuˈzɛ] . Examples of this are for instance former President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and football coach José Mourinho . Historically, the conventional Portuguese spelling of the name was Joseph , just as in English, though variants like Jozeph were not uncommon. Following the 1910 revolution , the Portuguese spelling was modernized. The first reform of Portuguese orthography of 1911 elided
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#1732844652708288-607: Is spelled Jehoseph , with the theophoric first syllable 'Jeho' , once in Psalms. The name can also consist of the Hebrew yadah meaning "praise", "fame" and the word asaf . Variations for males include: Jos%C3%A9 José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph . While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish [xoˈse] ; Portuguese [ʒuˈzɛ] (or [ʒoˈzɛ] ). In French,
312-601: Is the case of French politician José Bové . The same masculine form is also commonly used as part of feminine name composites, as is the case of French athlete Marie-José Pérec . In turn, the feminine form Josée is only used customarily either as a feminine first name or as part of a feminine name composite, with respective examples in French film director Josée Dayan and Canadian actress Marie-Josée Croze . A number of prominent Jewish men, including sportsmen, entertainers and historical figures, are known publicly as Joseph or Jose , another form of Yossi (Hebrew: יֹוסִי), and
336-578: Is the result of the phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives since the fifteenth century, when it departed from Old Spanish . Unlike today's pronunciation of this name, in Old Spanish the initial ⟨J⟩ was a voiced postalveolar fricative (as the sound " je " in French), and the middle ⟨s⟩ stood for a voiced apicoalveolar fricative /z̺/ (as in the Castilian pronunciation of
360-556: The English county of Cornwall , where it was especially frequent during the fourteenth century; this surname is pronounced / ˈ dʒ oʊ z / , as in the English names Jose ph or Jose phine . According to another interpretation Jose is cognate with Joyce ; Joyce is an English and Irish surname derived from the Breton personal name Iodoc, which was introduced to England by the Normans in
384-504: The surname Josephson . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josephson&oldid=1253195832 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Patronymic surnames Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
408-412: The case of the ⟨o⟩ ranging from /u/ to /o/ ; and in the case of ⟨é⟩ , from /e/ to /ɛ/ . The Portuguese phonology developed originally from thirteenth-century Galician-Portuguese , having a number of speakers worldwide that is currently larger than French, Italian and German. In Portuguese the pronunciation of the graphemes ⟨J⟩ and ⟨s⟩
432-406: The final mute consonants ⟨ph⟩ and ⟨th⟩ from Biblical anthroponyms and toponyms (e.g. Joseph , Nazareth ) and replaced them with the diacritic on the final ⟨é⟩ , indicating the stress vowel (e.g. José , Nazaré ). In Portuguese, the pronunciation of vowels varies depending on the country , regional dialect or social identity of the speaker: in
456-458: The form Josse . In medieval England the name was occasionally borne by women but more commonly by men; the variant surname Jose is local to Devon and Cornwall. The common spelling of this given name in different languages is a case of interlingual homography . Similar cases occur in English given names (Albert, Bertrand, Christine, Daniel, Eric, and Ferdinand) that are not exclusive to the English language and can be found namely in French with
480-448: The longer feminine form of Joséphine [ʒozefin] , and may also be coupled with other names in feminine name composites. Similarly, in Flemish , José is a male given name, for which the feminine written form is Josée , with both forms being pronounced [ˈjoːseː] , but the spelling stems originally from neighboring French-speaking influence. In Dutch , however, José
504-414: The name José , pronounced [ʒoze] , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is Josée as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch , however, José
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#1732844652708528-625: The name is " José ". In Arabic , including in the Quran , the name is spelled يوسف , Yūsuf . In Kurdish ( Kurdî ) , the name is Ûsiv or Yûsiv , Persian , the name is Yousef , and in Turkish it is Yusuf . In Pashto the name is spelled Esaf (ايسپ) and in Malayalam it is spelled Ousep (ഔസേപ്പ്). In Tamil , it is spelled as "Yosepu"( யோசேப்பு ) The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and Joseph
552-608: The word mismo ). The sounds, from a total of seven sibilants once shared by medieval Ibero-Romance languages, were partly preserved in Catalan , Galician , and Occitan , and have survived integrally in Mirandese and in the dialects of northern Portugal . In those regions of north-western Spain where the Galician and Asturian languages are spoken, the name is spelt Xosé and pronounced [ʃo'se] . The Portuguese given name José
576-560: Was one of the two names, along with Robert , to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Israeli Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph
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