Wiktionary

Tocqueville

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French Tocqueville.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Tocqueville

  1. A commune of the Eure department, Normandy, France.
  2. A commune of the Manche department, Normandy, France.
  3. (fully de Tocqueville) A surname from French — famously held by:
    1. François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
    2. Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French diplomat, political scientist, historian, and author of De la Démocratie en Amérique (two volumes, 1835–1840) and L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Translations edit

Further reading edit

French edit

Etymology edit

From Old French, from the Old Norse personal name Tóki + ville.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tɔk.vil/
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun edit

Tocqueville ?

  1. Tocqueville (a commune of the Eure department, Normandy, France)
  2. Tocqueville (a commune of the Manche department, Normandy, France)
  3. (fully de Tocqueville) a surname — famously held by:
    1. François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
    2. Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French diplomat, political scientist, historian, and author of De la Démocratie en Amérique (two volumes, 1835–1840) and L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • English: Tocqueville
  • → Chinese: → 托克維爾／托克维尔 (Tuōkèwéi'ěr) (transliteration)

Further reading edit

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Tocqueville&oldid=75783372"