Gerard

See also: Gérard

English

Alternative forms

• Gerrard

Etymology

Etymology tree

Frankish *Gaiʀahardbor.

Old French Gerartder.

Middle English Gerard

English Gerard

From Middle English Gerard, from Old French Gerart, from Frankish *Gaiʀahard, from *gaiʀ (“spear”) +‎ *hard(ī) (“hard, brave”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɑːd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈɹɑɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Proper noun

Gerard

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Derived terms

• Translingual: Gerardia (syn. of Agalinis)

Related terms

• Garrett
• Gerry
• Jerry

Translations

male given name

• Afrikaans: Gerard
• Basque: Gerard, Gerardo
• Bengali: জেরার্ড (jerarḍo)
• Bulgarian: Ге́рхард m (Gérhard), Дже́рард m (Džérard), Жера́р m (Žerár)
• Catalan: Gerard (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傑勒德 / 杰勒德 (Jiélèdé)

• Danish: Gerhard
• Dutch: Gerard (nl) m
• Esperanto: Gerardo
• Estonian: Kert
• French: Gérard (fr)
• Galician: Xerardo (gl) m
• German: Gerhard (de)
• Greek: Γεράρδος (el) (Gerárdos)
• Hungarian: Gellért (hu)
• Irish: Gearóid m
• Italian: Gerardo (it) m, Gherardo (it) m
• Latvian: Ģirts m
• Manx: Gerrard m
• Portuguese: Gerardo m
• Russian: Жера́р (ru) m (Žerár), Ге́рхард (ru) m (Gérxard), Дже́ра́рд m (Džérárd)
• Sicilian: Cilardu m
• Spanish: Gerardo (es) m
• Swedish: Gerhard (sv)
• Walloon: Djuråd (wa), Djeråd (wa)

Anagrams

• Drager, Grader, grader, red rag, redrag, regard

Basque

Proper noun

Gerard ?

1. a male given name

References

• Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 189

Catalan

Alternative forms

• Guerau, Garau, Grau, Giralt

Etymology

From Frankish *Gaiʀahard, either directly or via Old French Gerart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒəˈɾart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒeˈɾaɾt]

Proper noun

Gerard m

1. a male given name from the Germanic languages

Further reading

• “Gerard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *Gērhard, from Proto-West Germanic *Gaiʀahard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣeː.rɑrt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ge‧rard

Proper noun

Gerard m

1. a male given name

Related terms

• Geerd

Anagrams

• drager