Frank

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Proper noun 1.4.1 Quotations 1.4.2 Translations 2 Danish 2.1 Proper noun 3 French 3.1 Proper noun 3.1.1 Usage notes 4 German 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Proper noun 5 Norwegian 5.1 Proper noun 6 Swedish 6.1 Proper noun

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[edit] Etymology

Old English Franca

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• enPR: frăngk, IPA: /fræŋk/, SAMPA: /fr{Nk/
• Homophones: frank, franc

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Frank (plural Franks)

1. One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.

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Singular Frank

Plural -

Frank

1. A male given name. Originally derived from the medieval tribal name, revived in the 19th century and also used as a diminutive of Francis .
2. A surname.

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• 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II: Scene 1:

  Mrs. Ford. How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?

• 1996 Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins, ISBN 0 00 649840 X, Chapter VII, page 197:

  Your name is Francis, is it?

  Frank, sir.

  Your name is Francis. There was never a St. Frank. That's a name for gangsters and politicians.

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Frank

1. A male given name borrowed from English and German.

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Frank m.

1. A male given name, cognate to English Frank.

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• More often spelled Franck

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Old High German Franko " a Frank".

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Frank

1. A male given name used in the Middle Ages and revived in the nineteenth century. Popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

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Frank

1. A male given name borrowed from English or, rarely, from German.

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Frank

1. A male given name borrowed from English or, rarely, from German.