Gualtiero

Italian

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Etymology

From Old Northern French Waltier, from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz. Doublet of Walter, which was directly borrowed from a Germanic language. Cognate with Sicilian Guarteri/Varteri.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡwalˈtjɛ.ro/
  • Rhymes: -ɛro
  • Hyphenation: Gual‧tiè‧ro

Proper noun

Gualtiero m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Walter
    • 1872 [c. 1309], chapter XXXIX (chapter 39), in Giovanni Galvani, transl., La sesta crociata, ovvero l'istoria della santa vita di re Luigi IX di Francia [The Sixth Crusade, or The story of the saintly life of king Louis IX of France]‎[1], Bologna: Gaetano Romagnoli, translation of Livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs by Jean de Joinville (in Old French), page 184:
      […] primieramente vi dirò di Monsignore Messer Gualtiero di Castillione, del quale udii parlare ad un Cavaliere che lo avea veduto in una ruga presso Kasel
      [original: Premièrement vous diray de monseigneur messire Gaultier de Chastillon, duquel je ouy parler à ung chevalier qui l’avoit veu en une ruë prés du Kasel]
      I will firstly tell you about monsignor sir Walter of Châtillon, of whom I heard a knight speak, who once saw him on a street near Kasel

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