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):

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Proper noun

Gertrude

1. 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, [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.

Derived terms

• Gertie, Trudi, Trudie, Trudy

Translations

female given name

• Basque: Gertrudis, Gertrude
• Czech: Gertruda f
• Danish: Gertrud
• Dutch: Geertruida (nl) f, Gertruida, Gertrude (nl)
• Esperanto: Gertrudo
• Estonian: Kertu
• Finnish: Kerttu (fi)
• French: Gertrude (fr)
• Galician: Xertrude (gl) f
• Georgian: გერტრუდა (gerṭruda), გერტრუდი (gerṭrudi)
• German: Gertrud (de), Gertraud, Gertrude (de)
• Greenlandic: Qitura
• Hungarian: Gertrúd (hu)
• Icelandic: Geirþrúður (is) f
• Italian: Geltrude (it)
• Latvian: Ģertrūde f
• Lithuanian: Gertrūda (lt) f
• Norwegian: Gjertrud (no)
• Polish: Gertruda (pl) f
• Portuguese: Gertrudes (pt) f
• Russian: Гертру́да (ru) f (Gertrúda)
• Spanish: Gertrudis (es)
• Swedish: Gertrud (sv)
• Walloon: Djetrou (wa)

Basque

Etymology

Variant of Gertrudis.

Proper noun

Gertrude ?

1. a female given name

References

• Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 191

German

Alternative forms

• Gertrud, Gertraud, Gertraude

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”) + *þrūþiz (“strength”) or *trut- (“maiden, dear”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Gertrude

1. a female given name; diminutive forms Gerti, Trude, Trudi, Trudl