Ernest
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Borrowed in the 18th century from Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”), only remotely related to modern German ernst or English earnest.
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Ernest
- A male given name from the Germanic languages; popular in the 19th century.
- 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest […] , [Act I]:
- GWENDOLEN. […] and my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.
- 1980, P. D. James, Innocent Blood:
- "What's his name, your boyfriend?" "Ernest. Ernest Hemingway." The name was received in disparaging silence. Marlene said: "You wouldn't get me going out with a feller called Ernest. My granddad was Ernest."
- A surname.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”).
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Ernest m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ernest
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Ernest m
- a male given name
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Ernest m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ernest
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Ernst, from Middle High German ernest, from Old High German ernust, from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz.
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Ernest m pers (female equivalent Ernestyna, diminutive Erneścik)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ernest
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- Ernest in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Ernest m anim (genitive singular Ernesta, nominative plural Ernestovia, declension pattern of chlap)
- a male given name
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Further reading edit
- “Ernest”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024