Arne

See also: arne and arnë

English

Etymology

Short form of Old Norse compound names beginning with arn- (“eagle”).

Proper noun

Arne

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English.

Translations

male given name

• Danish: Arne
• Faroese: Arni, Árni
• Finnish: Aarne (fi), Aarno (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Arne (de), Arno (de)
• Norwegian: Arne (no)
• Swedish: Arne (sv)

Anagrams

• EARN, Earn, Near, Nera, eRNA, earn, erna, nare, near, rean

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Danish

Etymology

Old Norse Arni, Árni, short forms of names beginning with Old Norse ǫrn (“eagle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arnə/, [ˈɑːnə]

Proper noun

Arne

1. a male given name.

References

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 36 874 males with the given name Arne have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Arne

1. a male given name from the Scandinavian languages, equivalent to German Arno.

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄρνη (Árnē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈar.neː/, [ˈärneː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ne/, [ˈärne]

Proper noun

Arnē f sg (genitive Arnēs); first declension

1. A town of Thessaly, colony of Boeotia
2. A town of Boeotia

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Arnē
Genitive	Arnēs
Dative	Arnae
Accusative	Arnēn
Ablative	Arnē
Vocative	Arnē
Locative	Arnae

References

• “Arne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Arne in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Arne”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse Arni, short form of given names beginning with Arn-, ǫrn (“eagle”).

Proper noun

Arne

1. a male given name.

Usage notes

• The most common given name of men born in Norway in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.

Related terms

• (surnames) Arnesen

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 27 032 males with the given name Arne living in Norway on 1 January 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 29 April 2011.

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Swedish

Etymology

Old Norse Arni. A runic name revived in 1862.

Proper noun

Arne c (genitive Arnes)

1. a male given name.

Related terms

• (surnames) Arnesson

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 66 800 males with the given name Arne living in Sweden on 31 December 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams

• -erna, Enar, Erna, aren, enar, eran, rean, rena