Gerard
See also: Gérard
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English Gerard, from Old French Gerart, from Frankish *Gaiʀahard, from *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *hard(ī) (“hard, brave”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɑːd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˈɹɑɹd/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Proper noun edit
Gerard
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
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male given name
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Basque edit
Proper noun edit
Gerard ?
- a male given name
References edit
- Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 189
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *Gērhard, from Proto-West Germanic *Gaiʀahard.
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Proper noun edit
Gerard m
- a male given name