Gertrude
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”) + *þrūþiz (“strength”) or *trut- (“maiden, dear”) ; name of a Belgian seventh century saint.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɝtɹud/
Audio (southern England) (file)
Proper noun
Gertrude
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v]:
- O Gertrude, Gertrude! / When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.
- 1850 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 103-108
- "We two," she said, "will seek the groves / Where the lady Mary is, / With her five handmaidens, whose names / Are five sweet symphonies, / Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, / Margaret and Rosalys.
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Derived terms
- Gertie, Trudi, Trudie, Trudy
Translations
female given name
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Basque
Etymology
Variant of Gertrudis.
Proper noun
Gertrude ?
- a female given name
References
- Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 191