Nietzsche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Nietzsche.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈniː.t͡ʃə/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈni.t͡ʃə/

  • Audio (Maryland):

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Proper noun

Nietzsche

1. A surname from German, most famously borne by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher.
   • 1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:

     You would not like Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

Derived terms

• Nietzschean
• Nietzscheanism
• Nietzscheism
• Nietzschesque

 

Translations

surname

• Amharic: ኒሺ (niši), ኒትሸ (nitšä)
• Arabic: نِتْشَه (nitšah), نِتْشَة (nitša)
• Armenian: Նիցշե (Nicʻše)
• Azerbaijani: Nitsşe
• Belarusian: Ні́цшэ (Nícše)
• Bengali: নিৎশে (nitśe)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: নীৎসে, নিৎসে
• Cherokee: ᏂᏥ (nitsi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 尼采 (nei⁴ coi²)

  Mandarin: 尼采 (zh) (Nícǎi)

• Czech: Nietzsche m, Nietzscheová f, Nietzschová f
• Esperanto: Niĉeo
• Finnish: Nietzsche
• Georgian: ნიცშე (nicše)
• German: Nietzsche
• Greek: Νίτσε (el) (Nítse)
• Hebrew: נִיטְשֶׁה (Nítshe)
• Hindi: नीत्शे (nītśe)
• Irish: Nítse
• Japanese: ニーチェ (Nīche)
• Korean: 니체 (Niche)
• Latvian: Nīče, Nīcše
• Lithuanian: Nyčė
• Malayalam: നീച്ച (nīcca)
• Marathi: नित्ची (nitcī)
• Nepali: नीत्शे (nītśe)
• Oromo: Niichee
• Persian: نیچه (niče)
• Punjabi: ਨੀਤਸ਼ੇ (nītśe)
• Russian: Ни́цше (ru) (Nícše)
• Samogitian: Nīčė
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ниче

  Roman: Nietzsche, Niče

• Tagalog: Nietzsche
• Tamil: நீட்சே (nīṭcē)
• Thai: นีทเชอ (nîit-chəə)
• Tigrinya: ኒሺ (niši), ኒትሸ (nitšä)
• Ukrainian: Ні́цше (Nícše)
• Uzbek: Nitsshe
• Vietnamese: Nietzsche, Nít-sơ
• Yiddish: ניצשע (nitsshe)

Anagrams

• Zechstein

German

Alternative forms

• Nietzsch, Nietsch, Nietsche, Nitzsch, Nitzsche, Nitsch, Nitsche

Etymology

From East Central German, from a Slavic diminutive of Latin Nicolaus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːt͡ʃə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Nietzsche m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Nietzsches or (with an article) Nietzsche, plural Nietzsches or Nietzsche)

1. a surname

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Nietzsche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲi.t͡ʂɛ/
• Rhymes: -it͡ʂɛ
• Syllabification: Nie‧tzsche

Proper noun

Nietzsche m pers (related adjective nietzscheański)

1. (philosophy) Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers)

Declension

Declension of Nietzsche

	singular
nominative	Nietzsche
genitive	Nietzschego
dative	Nietzschemu
accusative	Nietzschego
instrumental	Nietzschem
locative	Nietzschem
vocative	Nietzsche

Derived terms

nouns

• nietzscheanista
• nietzscheanizm

 

Further reading

• Nietzsche in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Nietzsche in PWN's encyclopedia