Richard

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See also: Richárd and richard

English

Etymology

From Middle English Rycharde, from Old French Richard, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ML" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. and Ricohardus, from Frankish *Rīkahard, from Proto-Germanic *Rīkaharduz, a construction of *rīks (“king, ruler”) +‎ *harduz (“hard, brave”). Cognate with Old High German Rīcohard (“Richard”). A hypothetical Old English equivalent *Rī‌ċheard would also yield an identical "Richard" in Modern English, though it is unknown if the Old English equivalent existed.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Richard (plural Richards)

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
    • ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene II:
      What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
    • 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
      But we have known Williams and Richards, names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance, Fight the good fight of faith, or such like,
    • 1985, William Wharton, Pride, →ISBN, page 97:
      I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard. That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.
  2. (rare compared to given name) A patronymic surname transferred from the given name
    Martin Richard, the youngest of three people killed by explosions at the Boston Marathon in 2013
diminutives
surnames

Translations

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Richard, from Middle English Rycharde, from Old French Richard, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ML" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. and Ricohardus, from Frankish *Rīkahard, from Proto-Germanic *Rīkaharduz, a construction of *rīks (“king, ruler”) +‎ *harduz (“hard, brave”).

Proper noun

Richard

  1. a male given name from the Germanic languages

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Richard.

Czech

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Richard

Danish

Proper noun

Richard

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Richard

Estonian

Proper noun

Richard

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Richard

French

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Richard m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Richard
  2. a patronymic surname

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Richard

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Richard

Norwegian

Proper noun

Richard

  1. a male given name, the usual modern form of Rikard.

Slovak

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Richard m (genitive singular Richarda, nominative plural Richardovia, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Richard

Declension

Declension of Richard
singular plural
nominative Richard Richardovia
genitive Richarda Richardov
dative Richardovi Richardom
accusative Richarda Richardov
locative Richardovi Richardoch
instrumental Richardom Richardmi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Richard”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Proper noun

Richard c (genitive Richards)

  1. a male given name, an English and French type variant of Rikard.

References

  • [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 17 105 males with the given name Richard (compared to 10 124 named Rikard and 22 341 named Rickard) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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