Stieglitz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stieglitz.

Proper noun

Stieglitz (plural Stieglitzes)

1. A surname from German.
2. A locality in Break O'Day Council, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Derived terms

• Stieglitz rearrangement

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stieglitz is the 36099^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 621 individuals. Stieglitz is most common among White (93.72%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stieglitz”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• glitziest

German

Stieglitz

Alternative forms

• Stiegelitz

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German stigliz, stigelitze, from Old Czech stehlec, derived from Proto-Slavic *ščegъlъ. Cognate with modern Czech stehlík, Slovak stehlík, Polish szczygieł, Ukrainian щи́голь (ščýholʹ), Russian щего́л (ščegól), all referring to the same bird.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtiː.ɡlɪt͡s/, /ˈʃtiːk.lɪt͡s/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Stieg‧litz

Noun

Stieglitz m (strong, genitive Stieglitzes, plural Stieglitze)

1. European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

   Synonym: Distelfink

   • 1821, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years]‎^[1], volume 3:

     Zeisige und Stieglitze, in Käfigen aufgehangen, zwitschern dazwischen, und nicht leicht möchte ein Bild regeren Lebens gefunden werden als in einer Stube, wo mehrere Spinnerinnen arbeiten.

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Declension

Declension of Stieglitz [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Stieglitz	die	Stieglitze
genitive	eines	des	Stieglitzes	der	Stieglitze
dative	einem	dem	Stieglitz, Stieglitze1	den	Stieglitzen
accusative	einen	den	Stieglitz	die	Stieglitze

¹Now rare, see notes.

Related terms

• Steglitz

Descendants

• → Finnish: tikli (or from Middle Low German)
• → Serbo-Croatian: štìglec, štìglic, štìglić
• → Slovene: štiglic
• → Swedish: steglits (or from Middle Low German)
• → Upper Sorbian: štiglica

Further reading

• “Stieglitz”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “Stieglitz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Stieglitz” in Duden online
• “Stieglitz” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Stieglitz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Matzenauer, Antonín (1870), Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 82