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Nazi

See also: nazi, nazí, nazī, and naži

English

Etymology

1930, from German Nazi, a clipping of Nationalsozialist (“National Socialist”) (1924), earlier attestation (1903) as shortening of national-sozial),[1] since in German the nati- in national /ˌnatsi̯oˈnaːl/ is approximately pronounced Nazi [ˈnäːtsi]; compare the parallel pejorative terms Sozi (“socialist, social democrat”), Kozi (“commie, commo, communist”).

A homonymic term Nazi was in use before the rise of the NSDAP in Bavaria as a pet name for Ignaz and (by extension from that) a derogatory word for a backwards peasant, which may have influenced[2] the use of that abbreviation by the Nazis' opponents and its avoidance by the Nazis themselves.[1][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɑːtsi/, /ˈnætsi/, /ˈnæzi/ (the first pronunciation more closely matches the German pronunciation [ˈnäːtsi] and is more common than the second; the third is historical)
  • Audio (US, long vowel):(file)
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  • Audio (US, historical); “Japs and Nazis”:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːtsi, -ætsi, -æzi

Noun

Nazi (plural Nazis)

  1. (historical) A member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP). [1930]
  2. (by extension) One who subscribes to or advocates (neo-)Nazism, or a similarly fascist, racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic, ethnic supremacist, or ultranationalist ideology; a neo-Nazi.
  3. (slang, usually derogatory, sometimes offensive, see usage notes below) One who imposes their views on others; one who is unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict. (also frequently uncapitalised: nazi) [1960s]
    She's a total grammar Nazi.

Usage notes

  • (one who imposes their views on others): Humorous and informal, sometimes considered to be offensive or in poor taste, albeit not necessarily offensive in many circumstances.

Alternative forms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

Nazi (comparative more Nazi, superlative most Nazi)

  1. (historical) Of or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.
    Hypernym: fascist
    1. (historical) Of or pertaining to the Third Reich.
      Hypernym: German
      • 1944, United States Office of War Information, Press Release Labor Press Service‎[3], page 1:
        They have good reason to fear them too, for their machine gun strafing, their rockets, and their bombs knock out Nazi bridges, trucks, tanks, and kill them by the score.
      • 1993, Jeffry Diefendorf, chapter 5, in In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II‎[4], New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 116:
        The second development was the program for the redesign (Neugestaltung) of several German cities as representative Nazi cities.
  2. (by extension) Domineering, totalitarian, or intolerant.
    Synonym: fascist

Translations

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Proper noun

Nazi

  1. The language (ideological jargon) of Nazis.
    • 2008, Joseph P. Farrell, Nazi International, →ISBN:
      All this requires some very careful unpacking, for obviously, Dr. Bosse is “speaking Nazi with the Bormann dialect.”
    • 2014, Marius Turda, Aaron Gillette, Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective, →ISBN, page 123:
      He must write and speak “Nazi”, which is essentially anti-scientific' (Schreiber 1935a: 79). Falk Ruttke's presentation was illustrative in this sense. Ruttke was a member of the Reich Committee for Public Health Policy, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for Population and Racial Policy at the Reich Interior Ministry. Ruttke told the participants that after Hitler's accession to power, the 'knowledge of genetic laws was invoked towards the creation of a healthy race,...'
    • 2015, Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City, →ISBN:
      What is pertinent is that it was possible to effectively speak Nazi to Nazis and then become an “innocent nationalist” during the Cold War. Kubiiovych's truth, if any, was that he mastered both. Pragmatism and brutality thus meshed seamlessly. For Kubiiovych, developing the Ukrainian cooperative system under Germans would not only strengthen the Ukrainian economy but also protect Ukrainian peasants from Jewish exploitation.
  2. (derogatory, offensive, rare) The German language.
    • 1941 October 19, FFF advertisement in The New York Times (as quoted in 2004, Martin J. Manning, Herbert Romerstein, Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda (→ISBN), page 104):
      In Hitler's Own Words: Shut up, Yank — learn to speak NAZI!
    • 2013, Jennifer Lane, On Best Behavior:
      He pushed aside his ponytailed minion and stepped right up to Tank, who gave him a perplexed look as he barked a few words in guttural German. “I don't speak Nazi,” Tank said.
    • 2016, Jessica Holbrook, The Perfect Descent, page 158:
      “This is all sounding very pretty, Shaw,” Spencer checks his watch. “But how about you share what's being said for the rest of us who don't speak Nazi.”

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Nazi”, in Online Etymology Dictionary., citing Friedrich Kluge, Elmar Seebold, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 24. Auflage (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2002, →ISBN)
  2. ^ Henrik Gottlieb, Jens Erik Morgensen, editors (2007), Dictionary Visions, Research and Practice: Selected Papers from the 12th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen 2004‎[1], illustrated edition, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., →ISBN, retrieved 22 October 2014, pages 247-249
  3. ^ Anson Rabinbach, Sander Gilman, editors (2013), The Third Reich Sourcebook‎[2], Berkeley, California: California University Press, →ISBN, page 4

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Nazi m

  1. (uncommon after the mid-1900s) a diminutive of the male given name Ignaz, from Latin
    • 1816, Johann Georg Daniel Arnold, Der Pfingstmontag: Lustspiel in Straßburger Mundart:
      Der Bossel vom Fischkal, der Nazi, het mer's gstekt, / Un noch zwai Beddelvögt.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

  • Ernst Martin, Wörterbuch der elsässischen Mundarten (1907) (online)

Etymology 2

Noun

Nazi m (plural Nazis)

  1. Nazi

Bavarian

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Nazi m

  1. (uncommon after the mid-1900s) a diminutive of the male given name Ignaz, from Latin [c. 1800][1]
    • 1808 "und da bin ich auch mit gwallfahr't und nachher ist unser Nazi g'sund word'n." (August Hoch, Schiller's Todtenfeier, p. 22)

Etymology 2

Noun

Nazi

  1. a Nazi

References

  1. ^ Johann Andreas Schmeller, Bayerisches Wörterbuch t. 1 (1827), p. 39.

German

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

1924, representing the pronunciation of Nati- in Nationalsozialist (“National Socialist”), influenced by Sozi (“socialist”), as pejorative possibly also influenced by Nazi, a Bavarian hypocorism of Ignatius.

Noun

Nazi m (strong, genitive Nazis, plural Nazis or Nazi)

  1. a member or (ideological) supporter of the Nazi Party, Nazism, or neo-Nazism; a National Socialist [1924]
  2. a general, extremely strong insult, chiefly of someone right-wing, authoritarian or xenophobic
  3. (used in compounds) an expression of strong contempt for someone or something right-wing, authoritarian or xenophobic, as in Nazischwein, Nazipropaganda, etc.
Declension
Declension of Nazi [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Nazi die Nazis, Nazi
genitive eines des Nazis der Nazis, Nazi
dative einem dem Nazi den Nazis, Nazi
accusative einen den Nazi die Nazis, Nazi
Synonyms
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Nazi m (proper noun, strong, genitive Nazis, plural Nazis)

  1. (rare after the mid-1900s) a diminutive of the male given names Ignaz or Ignatius

Further reading

  • “Nazi” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Nazi” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Nazi” in Duden online
  •   Nazi on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Noun

Nazi m (plural Nazi)

  1. a Nazi (“member or (ideological) supporter of Nazism or neo-Nazism”)
    Hitler waar en Nazi.
    Hitler was a Nazi.

See also

Turkish

Etymology

Probably from French nazi

Pronunciation

Adjective

Nazi

  1. Nazi

Noun

Nazi (definite accusative Naziyi, plural Naziler)

  1. Nazi

Declension

Inflection
Nominative Nazi
Definite accusative Naziyi
Singular Plural
Nominative Nazi Naziler
Definite accusative Naziyi Nazileri
Dative Naziye Nazilere
Locative Nazide Nazilerde
Ablative Naziden Nazilerden
Genitive Nazinin Nazilerin
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