Rothschild

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɒθs.t͡ʃaɪld/
  • IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊ̯t.ʃɪld/ (rare, after the German pronunciation)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Rothschild (literally red shield) with a spelling pronunciation (as though equivalent to English Roth's child).

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Rothschild (plural Rothschilds or (nonstandard) Rothschildren)

  1. A surname from German.
    • 2020 October 2, Maureen O'Hare, “‘Price of blood’: Financial London’s grim history revealed in new tour”, in CNN[1]:
      A modern glass edifice nearby houses the headquarters of the illustrious Rothschild banking family. It was the Rothschilds who in the 1830s arranged that recently paid-off £20 million loan to the British government to reimburse slaveowners after the trade ended – said to be equivalent to some £300 billion in today’s money.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the Rothschild family.

Noun

Rothschild (plural Rothschilds or (nonstandard) Rothschildren)

  1. A very rich person.

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rothschild.

Proper noun

Rothschild

  1. a surname from German

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rothschild.

Proper noun

Rothschild m or f by sense

  1. a surname from German

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rothschild.

Proper noun

Rothschild c

  1. a surname from German

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rothschild.

Proper noun

Rothschild ?

  1. a surname from German

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rothschild.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɔt.ʃild/

Proper noun

Rothschild m or f by sense

  1. a surname from German

German

Etymology

Compound of roth (red) +‎ Schild (shield, sign).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁoːtʃɪlt/

Proper noun

Rothschild m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Rothschilds or (with an article) Rothschild, plural Rothschilds or Rothschild)

  1. a surname

Descendants

  • English: Rothschild

Noun

Rothschild m (strong, genitive Rothschilds, plural Rothschilds)

  1. a very rich person, especially one active in the financial world; may or may not have an anti-Jewish undertone

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rothschild.

Proper noun

Rothschild m or f by sense

  1. a surname from German

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rothschild.

Proper noun

Rothschild m or f by sense

  1. a surname from German

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rothschild.

Proper noun

Rothschild c (genitive Rothschilds)

  1. a surname from German