Wenzel

• Wentzel, Wenzl

From a diminutive of the name appearing in English as Wenceslaus, from Old Czech Venceslav, from Proto-Slavic *Vęťeslavъ. Doublet of Fatzke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnt͡sl̩/

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Wenzel

1. a male given name

Wenzel m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Wenzels or (with an article) Wenzel, feminine genitive Wenzel, plural Wenzels or Wenzel)

1. a surname originating as a patronymic

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wenzel”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Scheller, Andrea (2020) “Wenzel”, in Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands‎^[1] (in German)

Unadapted borrowing from German Wenzel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.t͡sɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt͡sɛl
• Syllabification: Wen‧zel
• Homophone: Wencel

Wenzel m pers

1. a male surname from German

Wenzel f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname from German

• “Wenzel”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022