Adalheidis

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Adalhaidis, Adelhaidis, Adelheidis, Adlheidis
  • Adeheidis
  • Alahaidis, Alaheidis, Aleheidis
  • Alaidis, Aleidis, Alhadis, Alhaidis, Alhaedis, Alhaeidis, Alheidis, Alhheidis

Etymology

Borrowed from Old High German Adalheid, traditionally given as Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) +‎ *haiduz (“character”), although the declension and gender match Proto-West Germanic *haiþi (“heath, pasture”) instead. First attested in the 10th C. CE

Proper noun

Adalheidis f (Medieval Latin)

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Adelaide
    • 992, Die Urkunden der deutschen Könige und Kaiser:
      ... dilectę aviae nostre Adalheidis videlicet imperatricis auguste nec non et fidelis Notkeri Leodiensis ecclesie venerabilis episcopi ecclesiam ...
      ...our beloved grandmother Adelheid, namely the august empress, and the faithful Notker of ... Liège, venerable bishop of the church ...

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

singular
nominative Adalheidis
genitive Adalheidis
dative Adalheidī
accusative Adalheidem
ablative Adalheide
vocative Adalheidis
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.