"Roderick" meaning in All languages combined

See Roderick on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈɹɒdəɹɪk/, /ˈɹɒdɹɪk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Roderick.wav Forms: Rodrick [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīksder. English Roderick Medieval English name from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, revived after Walter Scott used it in a poem in 1811, where it is a translation of its Spanish cognate Rodrigo. Roderick is also used to anglicize Scottish Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:der|gem-pro:*Hrōþirīks|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīksder. English Roderick, {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-}}, {{der|en|gem-pro|*Hrōþirīks}} Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Roderick
  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages. Translations (male given name): لُذَرِيق (luḏarīq) [masculine] (Arabic), রডারিক (roḍarik) (Bengali), Roderik [masculine] (Dutch), Rodrigo [masculine] (Galician), Roi [masculine] (Galician), Roderich [masculine] (German), रॉडेरिक (rŏḍerik) [masculine] (Marathi), Roderyk [masculine] (Polish), Rodrigo [masculine] (Portuguese), Rui (Portuguese), Ruairidh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), Rodrigo (Spanish), Ruy (Spanish), Rhydderch [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. A surname.
    Sense id: en-Roderick-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Rod [diminutive], Roddy [diminutive], Derick [diminutive]
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-04-01 using wiktextract (7de0cf9 and 9452535). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.