Gaudí
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
From a personal name cognate to Old French Gaudin, from gaut (“woods”), from Frankish *walþu (“woods, woodland”), or from a hypocoristic form of any one of several Germanic personal names beginning with the element *waldą (“force”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Gaudí m or f by sense
- a surname from patronymic
- Antoni Gaudí, a Catalan architect who is known for the Sagrada Familia
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Gaudí” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.