Einstein

See also: einstein

English

Albert Einstein

Etymology

Borrowed from German Einstein.

• The common noun is an eponym of Albert Einstein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (more common) /ˈaɪnstaɪn/, (less common) /ˈaɪnʃtaɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Proper noun

Einstein (plural Einsteins)

1. Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
   • 1919 November 10, “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations.
     EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS
     Stars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry.
     A BOOK FOR 12 WISE MEN
     No More in All the World Could Comprehend it, Said Einstein When His Daring Publishers Accepted it.

   • 1977, James Taylor (lyrics and music), “Secret O' Life”, in JT, Columbia Records:

     Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space

   • 1993, Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile:

     Gaston: Picasso, Einstein, Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring.

   • 1996 December, Gary Andrew Poole, “Qua”, in Wired‎^[2], →ISSN:

     We're sitting in a coffee shop in Sunnyvale, California. It's late. I've had a few beers, and my dinner date has downed a few plum wines. I peer deep into his eyes, trying to figure out why so many people throughout the high tech universe think Henry Massalin could be the Einstein of our time.

   • 2000 January 22, Listener Limerick Challenge: Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, spoken by Carl Kasell, via National Public Radio:

     If Einstein, my dear / Were a toll booth cashier / I imagine he too would be [bored]

2. A surname from German.

Derived terms

• Albert Einstein
• Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
• Bose-Einstein statistics
• einstein
• Einstein cross
• Einstein field equation
• Einsteinian
• Einsteinian relativity
• einsteinium
• Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (E-P-R paradox, EPR paradox, EPR)
• Einstein radius
• Einstein ring
• Einstein-Rosen bridge (E-R bridge, ER bridge, ER)
• Einstein's constant
• EPR=ER, ER=EPR
• Stark-Einstein law

 

Translations

Albert Einstein

• Arabic: أَيْنْشْتَايْن m (ʔaynštāyn)
• Armenian: Այնշտայն (Aynštayn)
• Belarusian: Эйнштэ́йн m (Ejnštéjn)
• Bengali: আইনস্টাইন (ainsṭain)
• Bulgarian: Айнщайн m (Ajnštajn)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 愛因斯坦／爱因斯坦 (oi³ jan¹ si¹ taan²)

  Mandarin: 愛因斯坦／爱因斯坦 (zh) (Àiyīnsītǎn)

• Danish: Einstein
• Dutch: Einstein
• Esperanto: Ejnŝtejno
• Finnish: Einstein (fi)
• French: Einstein (fr)
• Georgian: აინშტაინი (ainšṭaini)
• German: Einstein (de)
• Greek: Αϊνστάιν (el) m (Aïnstáin)
• Hebrew: איינשטיין (Aynshteyn)
• Hindi: आइनस्टाइन (āinasṭāin)
• Interlingua: Einstein
• Italian: Einstein
• Japanese: アインシュタイン (ja) (Ainshutain)
• Korean: 아인슈타인 (ainsyutain)
• Macedonian: Ајнштајн m (Ajnštajn)
• Marathi: आइनस्टाइन m (āinasṭāin)
• Navajo: hastiin Einstein
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Einstein

  Nynorsk: Einstein

• Persian: اینشتین (fa)
• Polish: Einstein (pl) m
• Portuguese: Einstein (pt)
• Russian: Эйнште́йн (ru) m (Ejnštɛ́jn)
• Serbo-Croatian: Ајнштајн m (Ajnštajn)
• Spanish: Einstein
• Thai: ไอน์สไตน์ (aisàdtai)
• Ukrainian: Ейнште́йн m (Ejnštéjn)
• Urdu: آئنسٹائن
• Yiddish: אײַנשטיין (aynshteyn)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Einstein is the 34390^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 659 individuals. Einstein is most common among White (94.54%) individuals.

Noun

Einstein (plural Einsteins)

1. (sometimes sarcastic) An extremely clever or intelligent person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:know-it-all

   Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an Einstein in the family.

   Good job, Einstein, thinking you could grab the wires with your pliers.

Synonyms

• Albert Einstein

 

Anagrams

• Nineties, nineties

German

Etymology

The surname is habitational, from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen ("to enclose or surround with stone"), cp. ein-, Stein and -en, or from ein +‎ Stein. The "an extremely intelligent person" sense is an eponym of Albert Einstein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯nʃˌtaɪ̯n/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n

Proper noun

Einstein m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Einsteins or (with an article) Einstein, feminine genitive Einstein, plural Einsteins)

1. a surname, notably of Albert Einstein

Declension

Declension of Einstein [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Einstein	(eine)	(die)	Einstein	(die)	Einsteins
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Einsteins, Einstein1	(einer)	(der)	Einstein	(der)	Einsteins
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Einstein	(einer)	(der)	Einstein	(den)	Einsteins
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Einstein	(eine)	(die)	Einstein	(die)	Einsteins

¹With an article.

Noun

Einstein m

1. an Einstein (an extremely intelligent person)

Synonyms

• Columbo (a person stating the obvious)

Further reading

• “Einstein” in Duden online

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Einstein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈajn.ʂtajn/
• Rhymes: -ajnʂtajn
• Syllabification: Ein‧stein
• Homophones: ajnsztajn, einstein

Proper noun

Einstein m pers

1. (physics) Albert Einstein

Declension

Declension of Einstein

	singular
nominative	Einstein
genitive	Einsteina
dative	Einsteinowi
accusative	Einsteina
instrumental	Einsteinem
locative	Einsteinie
vocative	Einsteinie

Derived terms

nouns

• ajnsztajn
• einstein

 

Further reading

• Einstein in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Einstein.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaj̃s.taj̃/

Proper noun

Einstein m or f by sense

1. Einstein (Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist)
2. a surname from German

Noun

Einstein m (invariable)

1. an Einstein (an extremely intelligent or wise person)