Frederick

See also: Frédérick

English

Etymology

From German Friedrich, Friederich and influenced by Latin Friderīcus, Frederīcus, from Old High German Fridurih, from Frankish *Friþurīk, from Proto-Germanic *Friþurīks (“peace king, peaceful ruler”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛd(ə)ɹɪk/

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Proper noun

Frederick

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
     : Act III, Scene I:

     Have you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of Frederick, the great soldier who miscarried at sea?

   • 1892, Robert Grant, The Reflections of a Married Man, Scribner, pages 98–99:

     When I referred to the confusion which would result from the presence in the house of two people with the same name, she tossed her head and said it would be easy to obviate that by calling me Frederick instead of Fred. - - - Imagine Harry Bolles and other kindred spirits calling me stiff, august Frederick! I vowed that this should not be brought to pass - - -

2. A surname.
3. A town in Weld County, Colorado.
4. A tiny city in Rice County, Kansas.
5. A city, the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland, United States.
6. A ghost town in Macomb County, Michigan.
7. An unincorporated community in Miami County, Ohio, United States.
8. A city, the county seat of Tillman County, Oklahoma, United States.
9. A town in Brown County, South Dakota.

Derived terms

• Frederick County
• Fredericktown
• Prince Frederick

Related terms

• pet forms: Fred, Freddie, Freddy, Erick
• rare spellings: Frederic, Fredrick, Frideric
• female given names: Frederica

Translations

male given name

• Albanian: Frederik
• Arabic: فريدرش
• Armenian: Ֆրիդրիխ (Fridrix)
• Basque: Frederiko
• Belarusian: Фрыдрых m (Frydryx)
• Bengali: ফ্রেডেরিক (phreḍerik)
• Bulgarian: Фридрих (Fridrih)
• Catalan: Frederic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: , 弗雷德里克 (fat¹ leui⁴ dak¹ lei⁵ hak¹)

  Mandarin: 弗雷德里克 (Fúléidélǐkè), 腓特烈 (Féitèliè)

• Corsican: Federicu m, Federigu m, Fredericu m
• Czech: Bedřich (cs) m
• Danish: Frederik c
• Dutch: Frederik (nl) m
• Esperanto: Frederiko
• Estonian: Priit
• Faroese: Fríðrikur m
• Finnish: Veeti (fi)
• French: Frédéric (fr) m
• Friulian: Fidrì
• Galician: Frederico (gl) m
• German: Friedrich (de) m, Friederich m
• Greek: Φρειδερίκος (el) m (Freideríkos), Φρήντριχ (el) m (Fríntrich)
• Greenlandic: Fari
• Hebrew: פרידריך
• Hungarian: Frigyes (hu)
• Icelandic: Friðrik (is) m
• Irish: Feardorcha m
• Italian: Federico (it) m, Federigo m, Federico (it) m, Fedrico m
• Japanese: フレデリック (Furederikku)
• Korean: 프리드리히 (Peurideurihi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: فریدریش (frîdrîş)

• Latin: Frederīcus m, Friderīcus (la) m
• Latvian: Fridrihs m
• Lithuanian: Frydrichas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Frederik m

• Maltese: Federiku
• Middle Low German: Vrederik
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: Fredrik (no) m

  Norwegian Nynorsk: Fredrik m

• Occitan: Frederic m
• Persian: فردریک (feredrik), فردریش (feredriš)
• Polish: Fryderyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: Frederico (pt) m
• Romanian: Frederic
• Russian: Фри́дрих (ru) m (Frídrix), Фре́дерик (ru) m (Fréderik)
• Scottish Gaelic: Freardorcha
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Фридрих

  Roman: Fridrik

• Sicilian: Fidiricu m
• Slovak: Frederik m
• Slovene: Friderik m
• Spanish: Federico (es) m, Fadrique m
• Swedish: Fredrik (sv) c
• Thai: เฟรเดอริก
• Ukrainian: Фрі́дріх m (Frídrix)