Ferdinand

English

Etymology

From Spanish Ferdinando, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)).

The moon is named after a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝdn̩.ænd/, /ˈfɝdən-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːdɪnænd/, /-nənd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: Fer‧di‧nand

Proper noun

Ferdinand

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, best known for a 13th century king of Spain, but seldom popular in English.
2. (astronomy) A moon of Uranus.

Translations

male given name

• Bengali: ফার্ডিনান্ড (pharḍinanḍ)
• Catalan: Ferran (ca)
• Chinese: 费迪南德 (fèidínándé), 斐迪南 (zh) (fěidínán), 费迪南 (fèidínán)
• Czech: Ferdinand (cs)
• Danish: Ferdinand
• Extremaduran: Fernandu
• Finnish: Veeti (fi)
• French: Fernand (fr)
• Galician: Fernán (gl) m, Fernando (gl)
• Georgian: ფერდინანდი (perdinandi)
• German: Ferdinand (de)
• Greek: Φερδινάνδος (el) (Ferdinándos)
• Hungarian: Ferdinánd (hu), Nándor (hu)
• Italian: Ferdinando (it) m
• Latin: Ferdinandus
• Norwegian: Ferdinand (no)
• Persian: فردیناند
• Polish: Ferdynand (pl)
• Portuguese: Fernão (pt) m, Fernando (pt)
• Russian: Фердина́нд (ru) m (Ferdinánd)
• Sicilian: Firdinannu m
• Spanish: Fernando (es), Hernando (es), Hernán (es), Fernán (es)
• Swedish: Ferdinand

moon of Uranus

• Japanese: ファーディナンド (ja) (Fādinando)

Czech

Proper noun

Ferdinand m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ferdinand

Declension

Declension of Ferdinand (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ferdinand	Ferdinandové
genitive	Ferdinanda	Ferdinandů
dative	Ferdinandovi, Ferdinandu	Ferdinandům
accusative	Ferdinanda	Ferdinandy
vocative	Ferdinande	Ferdinandové
locative	Ferdinandovi, Ferdinandu	Ferdinandech
instrumental	Ferdinandem	Ferdinandy

Danish

Proper noun

Ferdinand

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ferdinand

Faroese

Proper noun

Ferdinand m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ferdinand

Usage notes

• son of Ferdinand: Ferdinandsson
• daughter of Ferdinand: Ferdinandsdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Ferdinand
Accusative	Ferdinand
Dative	Ferdinandi
Genitive	Ferdinands

German

Etymology

From Spanish Ferdinando, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛʁdinant/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Ferdinand m (proper noun, strong, genitive Ferdinands)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ferdinand

Norwegian

Proper noun

Ferdinand

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ferdinand

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from German Ferdinand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛrdinand/

Proper noun

Ferdinand m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ferdinand

Declension

Declension of Ferdinand

	singular	plural
nominative	Ferdinand	Ferdinandovia
genitive	Ferdinanda	Ferdinandov
dative	Ferdinandovi	Ferdinandom
accusative	Ferdinanda	Ferdinandov
locative	Ferdinandovi	Ferdinandoch
instrumental	Ferdinandom	Ferdinandmi

Derived terms

• Ferdiš, Ferdiško
• Ferdo, Ferdko
• Nando, Nandko

 

Further reading

• “Ferdinand”, 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

Swedish

Proper noun

Ferdinand c (genitive Ferdinands)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ferdinand

Turkish

Proper noun

Ferdinand

1. (astronomy) Ferdinand