Gertrude

From Old French, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”) + *þrūþiz (“strength”) or *trut- (“maiden, dear”) ; name of a Belgian seventh century saint.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɝtɹud/

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Gertrude

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     O Gertrude, Gertrude! / When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.

   • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 103-108:

     "We two," she said, "will seek the groves / Where the lady Mary is, / With her five handmaidens, whose names / Are five sweet symphonies, / Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, / Margaret and Rosalys.

• Gertie, Trudi, Trudie, Trudy

Variant of Gertrudis.

Gertrude ?

1. a female given name

• Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 191