Ernst

Borrowed from German Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”), from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz. Doublet of earnest.

Ernst

1. A surname.

• 'rents, Snert, Stern, nerts, rents, snert, stern, stern-, terns

• IPA^(key): [ænsd̥]

Ernst

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Ernest

• feminine form: Erna

Ernst

1. a male given name

• Erni
• Ernits
• Erno

• IPA^(key): /ɛɻɳst/

Ernst m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Ernst: Ernstsson
• daughter of Ernst: Ernstsdóttir

Nominalization of ernst.

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁnst/

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Ernst m (strong, genitive Ernstes or Ernsts, no plural)

1. earnestness, seriousness
2. (with possessive determiner, idiomatic) a serious statement, a seriously meant action

   Ist das dein Ernst? ― Are you serious? (literally, “Is that your serious opinion?”)

   Das ist mein Ernst, wenn ich sage, dass dieser Rock zu kurz ist.

   I mean it when I say this skirt is too short.

   Aus Spaß wurde Ernst. ― What started as a bit of fun, became serious.

• allen Ernstes
• der Ernst des Lebens
• Ernst machen
• im Ernst

Ernst m (proper noun, strong, genitive Ernsts, plural Ernste or Ernsts or (with an article) Ernst)

1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Erna, equivalent to English Ernest

   Aus Spaß wurde Ernst – und der kann jetzt laufen! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• “Ernst” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Ernst” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Ernst” in Duden online
• “Ernst” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Ernst on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Ernst”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Ernst

1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Erna, equivalent to English Ernest

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Ernst c (genitive Ernsts)

1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Erna, equivalent to English Ernest