Archibald

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French Archaunbault, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German Erchanbald, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *Erknabalþaz, a construction of *erknaz (“pure, holy, genuine, precious”) +‎ *balþaz (“strong, bold”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ).tʃɪ.bɔːld/, /ˈɑː(ɹ).tʃɪ.bəld/

Proper noun

Archibald

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
2. A patronymic surname transferred from the given name

Usage notes

• Used as an anglicization of Scottish Gaelic Gille Easbuig (literally “servant of the bishop”), which is also often anglicized as Gillespie.

Quotations

• c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
  , Scene 1 :

  On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there

  Young Harry Percy, and brave Archibald,

  That ever-valiant and approved Scot,

  At Holmedon met.

Related terms

• Archie

Translations

male given name

• Catalan: Arxibald
• French: Archambault m, Archenbaud m, Archibald (fr), Archaimbaud m, Archimbaud m

  Old French: Archaunbault m

• German: Archibald
• Greek: Αρχίβαλδος m (Archívaldos)
• Italian: Arcibaldo (it), Arcimboldo m, Archimboldo m, Arcimbaldo m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: Archibaldus
• Old English: Eorcenbald m
• Old High German: Erkanbald, Erkenbald, Erchanbald, Erchimbold
• Portuguese: Arquibaldo m, Arquimbaldo m
• Spanish: Archibaldo m