Gustav

Gustav

See also: Gustáv

English

Alternative forms

• Gustave, Gustavus

Etymology

A royal name in Sweden, traditionally explained (even by Gustav I Vasa himself) as Swedish göt + staf "staff (=support) of the Geats (southern Swedes)". But there is no such name in Old Norse, and Gustav is more probably a Swedish rendering of Old Polish / north-west Slavic Gostislav, from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Proper noun

Gustav (plural Gustavs)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Derived terms

• Gus

 

Translations

given name

Bengali: গুস্তাভ (gustabh) Corsican: Gustavu m Czech: Gustav (cs) Danish: Gustav Dutch: Gustaaf (nl) m Esperanto: Gustavo Estonian: Gustav, Kustav Finnish: Kustaa (fi) French: Gustave (fr) m Galician: Gustavo (gl) m German: Gustav (de) Greek: Γουσταύος (el) m (Goustávos) Greenlandic: Kuutak Hungarian: Gusztáv (hu) Icelandic: Gústaf (is), Gústav (is) Italian: Gustavo (it) m Latin: Gustavus m Latvian: Gustavs m Norwegian: Gustav (no) Polish: Gustaw (pl) Portuguese: Gustavo (pt) m Russian: Густав (ru) m (Gustav) Spanish: Gustavo (es) Swedish: Gustav (sv) c, Gustaf (sv) c West Frisian: Gustaaf m

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Czech

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡustaf]

Proper noun

Gustav m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Gustav

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Danish

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔsˌtɑw]

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

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Estonian

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

Related terms

• Kusta, Kustas, Kustav

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Faroese

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, from Old Swedish Gøtstaf, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊs.tav/

Proper noun

Gustav m

1. a male given name

Usage notes

Patronymics

• son of Gustav: Gustavsson
• daughter of Gustav: Gustavsdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Gustav
Accusative	Gustav
Dative	Gustavi
Genitive	Gustavs

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German

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name from Swedish

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• Gustaf
• Göstaf (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Swedish Gøtstaf, from Old Norse Gautr (“Geats”) +‎ stafr (“staff”), or maybe from Slavic (compare Old Polish Gościsław, Goscław, Czech Hostislav), from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”). First recorded as Swedish given name in 1521.

Proper noun

Gustav c (genitive Gustavs)

1. a male given name

Usage notes

• Royal name, and popular given name in Sweden since the sixteenth century.

Derived terms

• Gustavsson

 

Related terms

• (male given names) Gösta
• (female given names) Gustava
• (surnames) Gustafsson, Gustavsson

Descendants

• English: Gustav
• French: Gustave
• Latin: Gustavus

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 80 029 males with the given name Gustav (compared to 43 816 named Gustaf) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams

• utgavs