What is "gertrude"

fem. proper name, from French, from Old High German Geretrudis, from ger "spear" + trut "beloved, dear."

In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent, since he resents her marrying her husband's brother Claudius after he murdered the King (young Hamlet's father, King Hamlet). Gertrude reveals no guilt in her marriage with Claudius after the recent murder of her husband, and Hamlet begins to show signs of jealousy towards Claudius. According to Hamlet, she scarcely mourned her husband's death before marrying Claudius.

Gertrude or Gertrud may refer to:

• The " underwater phone" used by submarines for communication
• Gertrude (Hamlet), Hamlet's mother
• Gertrud (novel), by Hermann Hesse
• Gertrud (play), by Hjalmar Söderberg
• Gertrud (film), 1964 Danish film based on Söderberg's play
• Gertrude (Code name), invasion plan for Turkey by Nazi Germany
• Gertrude (crater), crater on Uranus' moon Titania
• 710 Gertrud, minor planet

Places named Gertrude:

• Gertrude, Arkansas
• Gertrude, California
• Gertrude, Washington
• Gertrude, West Virginia

People with Gertrude as the full name:

• Gertrude of Aldenberg (1227–1297), blessed in the Roman Catholic Church
• Gertrude of Austria (1226–1288)
• Gertrude of Babenberg (d. 1150), Duchess of Bohemia
• Gertrude of Bavaria (d. 1197), Queen of Denmark
• Gertrude of Brunswick (d. 1117), Markgräfin of Meissen
• Gertrude of Dagsburg (d. 1225), Duchess of Lorraine
• Gertrude of Hackeborn (1223–1292), Abbess of Hellfta
• Gertrude of Hohenburg (d. 1281), Queen of the Romans
• Gertrude of Merania (1185–1213)
• Gertrude of Nivelles (626–659)
• Gertrude of Poland
• Gertrude of Saxony (d. 1113), Regent of Holland
• Gertrude of Süpplingenburg, Duchess of Bavaria and Saxony
• Princess Gertrude, daughter of Henry the Lion
• Gertrude the Great (1256–1301) known informally as Saint Gertrude
• Saint Gertrude, also known as Gertrude of Hamage, founder of the convent Hamage near Douai—see Chronological list of saints and blesseds: 7
• Gertrude of Holland, wife of Robert I, Count of Flanders

People with the given name Gertrude:

• Gertrude (given name)
• Emma Gertrude Philipps

The Gertrude or Gertrud was the code name of the invasion plan for Turkey by Nazi Germany, the idea began forming in the beginning of the summer of 1942. This code name was eventually changed.

The project was abandoned because of the rapid advance of the Red Army in the Caucasus region, and the Allied landings in Sicily.

According to the documents that were supposedly found in the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, Nazi leaders knew very well that sooner or later Pan-Turkism would be a danger to Germany if they allowed Turkey and Azerbaijan to join together. This danger of Turkic and Azerbaijani collaboration under a 'Great Turan' in Ankara was actually a perceived threat among Nazi leaders in 1942 and 1943. The idea of Greater Armenia and its realization was a counterbalance to Turkish desires in the Caucasus.

The long yearning of the Armenian people for independence was addressed by the establishment of the Free Caucasus Movement, which by the claims of some had been personally suggested and approved by Adolf Hitler.

Gertrude (also spelled Gertrud) is a female given name which is derived from Germanic roots that meant "spear" and "strength". "Trudy", originally a diminutive of "Gertrude", has developed into a name in its own right.

For a list of fictional characters and people known by only one name, see Gertrude (disambiguation)

"Gartred" is a rare variation (attested in Daphne du Maurier's novel The King's General, taking place in 17th Century Cornwall) (see 1, 2).

See Names in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries for a curiosity with this name.

People with this name include:

• Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), American painter based in Chicago
• Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942), Swedish suffragist
• Gertrude Alderfer [Gert] (born 1931), former first basewoman and catcher
• Gertrude Appleyard (1865–1917), British archer
• Gertrude Aretz née Kuntze-Dolton (1889–1938), German historian and publisher
• Lillian Gertrud Asplund (1906–2006), last survivor remembering the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912
• Gertrude Astor (1887–1977), American motion picture character actress
• Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), American writer
• Gertrud Bacher (born 1971), retired Italian heptathlete
• Gertrude Baines (1894–2009), the world's oldest living person from 2 January 2009 until 11 September 2009
• Gertrude Bambrick (1897–1974), American actress of the silent era
• Gertrude Baniszewski (1929–1990), tortured Sylvia Likens to death in Indiana, USA in the 1960s
• Gertrud Barkhorn, fictional character from the anime/manga series Strike Witches
• Gertrud Bäumer (1873–1954), German politician and Feminist
• Gertrude Bell, CBE (1868–1926), archaeologist and spy
• Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948), writer of fantasy and science fiction in the U.S.
• Gertrude Berg (1894–1966), American actress and screenwriter
• Gertrude Bernard, also known as Anahareo, (1906–1986), Mohawk woman and companion of Grey Owl
• Gertrud Bing (1892–1964), scholar and Director of the Warburg Institute
• Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American mathematician
• Gertrude Bloede (born 1845), United States poet
• Gertrude Blom (1901–1993), Swiss journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer
• Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857–1911), Irish-born journalist, author, playwright, and editor
• Gertrude Bonnin or Zitkala-Sa (1876–1938), Sioux writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist
• Gertrude Bryan (1888–1976), stage actress on Broadway
• Gertrude Caton–Thompson (1888–1985), English archaeologist
• Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951), child-friend of author Lewis Carroll
• Gertrude Claire (1852–1928), actress of the American stage and Hollywood silent films
• Gertrude Colburn (died 1968), American dancer and sculptor
• Gertrude Cosgrove (1882–1962), the wife of Sir Robert Cosgrove, twice elected as Premier of Tasmania
• Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter, a lady at the court of Henry VIII of England
• Gertrude Crain (1911–1996), American publishing executive
• Gertrude Crampton (1909–1996), author of children's books
• Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman, GBE (1884–1954), British woman active in women's rights issues
• Gertrud Hedwig Anna Dohm or Hedwig Pringsheim (1855–1942), German actress
• Gertrude Walton Donahey (1908–2004), politician
• Gertrude Dunn (1933–2004), American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Gertrude Ederle (1905–2003), American competitive swimmer
• Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and pharmacologist
• Gertrude Elles MBE (1872–1960), British geologist, known for her work on graptolites
• Gertrud Fridh (1921–1984), Swedish stage and film actress
• Gertrude Gabl (1948–1976), alpine skier from Austria
• Gertrude Gadwall, fictional character
• Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, German scientist
• Gertrude Himmelfarb (born 1922), also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian
• Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), gardener
• Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Klasen or Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952), English actress, singer and musical comedy performer
• Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová, Czech three-time table tennis world champion
• Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), German lyric poet and writer
• Gertrud Kraus (born 1901), pioneer of modern dance in Israel
• Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952), one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century
• Gertrud Luckner (1900–1995), Christian resister against Nazism
• Gertrud Månsson, Swedish politician, first woman in the Stockholm city council.
• Gertrud Elisabeth Mara [née Schmeling] (1749–1833), German operatic soprano
• Sarah Gertrude Millin
• Gertrude Mongella, ambassador from Tanzania
• Gertrude Morgan (1900–1980), preacher, and missionary
• Gertrude Neumark, American physicist
• Gertrude Clare Owens, (1887–1963), Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
• Gertrud Paetsch (born 1910), German ethnolog and philolog in the area of Cartvelology
• Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren (1897–1991), Swedish mezzosoprano
• Gertrude Pridgett Rainey
• Gertrud Rask (1673–1735), the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede
• Gertrud Rittmann (1908–2005), German composer and music arranger who lived and worked in the United States
• Gertrud Schoenberg (1898–1967), the second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg
• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902–1999), fervent Nazi Party (NSDAP) member in Nazi Germany
• Gertrud Schüpbach Swiss-American molecular biologist
• Gertrud Skomagers (died 1556), Danish alleged witch
• Gertrud Stefanek (born 1959), Hungarian fencer
• Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), writer
• Gertrud Szabolcsi (1923–1993), biochemist
• Gertrude "Luna" Vachon (1962-2010), American professional wrestler.
• Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979), American author, mainly of children's stories
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector
• Gertrude Weil (1879–1971), American involved in women's suffrage, labor reform, and civil rights
• Gertrud Wolle (1891–1952), German film actress
• Gertrud Margarete Zelle (1876–1917), aka Mata Hari, Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy executed by firing squad

Gertrude is the largest known crater on Uranus's moon Titania. It is about 326 km across, 1/5 of Titania's diameter. It is named after the mother of Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Features on Titania are named after female Shakespearean characters.

The crater rim of Gertrude is elevated by 2 km over the crater floor. In the center of the crater there is a large dome, which resulted from the uplift of the surface immediately after the impact. The dome has the diameter of about 150 km and is 2–3 km high. The rim and dome are low for crater with such a large diameter indicating that the relief has relaxed since the impact. The surface of the dome has only few superimposed smaller craters, which means that it was modified later.

Gertrude is a Chicago-based company. Gertrude was founded in 2005 by Otis Gibson who is the Chief Creative Officer at the firm. The name of the firm comes from the 1920s architecture movement De Stijl. In 2016, Gertrude opened an architecture department focusing on small spaces and structure design. This division also designs shipping containers for companies moving their product via train or other mass shipping methods and was named for designer Ray Eames. Gertrude also has a department called Oz Manufacturing that focuses on digital media, a company named for The Wizard of Oz, which was written by a Chicago writer. Clients have included I.W. Harper, J&J Snack Foods, Sea-monkeys, and Singha beer.