Waldemar
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Waldemar in the 19th century. Compare Vladimir, from Slavic, and the Scandinavian name Valdemar.
Proper noun edit
Waldemar
- (rare) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 9:
- If, as a stranger in our land, you should require the aid of other judgment to guide your own, we can only say that Alicia, the daughter of our gallant knight Waldemar Fitzurse, has at our court been long held the first in beauty as in place.
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German edit
Etymology edit
From an Old High German compound name, from the elements waltan (“rule, govern”) (from Proto-West Germanic *wald) + māri (“famous, great”) (from *mārī).[1]
Merged with Scandinavian Valdemar, apparently from the semantically and formally similar Slavic name *Voldiměrъ, which is sometimes considered to also derive from the same pre-Old High German name *waldimӕ̄r-.[1]
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Proper noun edit
Waldemar
- a male given name
References edit
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Old Danish rendering of Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ, reshaped like the semantically and formally similar Old Norse Valdimarr. Doublet of Włodzimierz.
Proper noun edit
Waldemar m pers (female equivalent Waldemara, diminutive Waldek)
- a male given name
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | Waldemar | Waldemarowie |
genitive | Waldemara | Waldemarów |
dative | Waldemarowi | Waldemarom |
accusative | Waldemara | Waldemarów |
instrumental | Waldemarem | Waldemarami |
locative | Waldemarze | Waldemarach |
vocative | Waldemarze | Waldemarowie |
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun edit
Waldemar f
Further reading edit
- Waldemar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Proper noun edit
Waldemar m
- a male given name, variant of Valdemar
Swedish edit
Proper noun edit
Waldemar c (genitive Waldemars)
- a male given name, a less common spelling of Valdemar