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Leopold

masc. proper name, from French Léopold, from Old High German Leutpald, Liutbald, literally "bold among the people," from leudi "people" + bald "bold."

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Leopold (given name)

Leopold is an originally Germanic name composed of two stems, common to Germanic names. The first part is related to the Latin word "Leo", meaning "lion" (although some say the first part is related to Old High German "liut" meaning "people"). The Germanic peoples had no word for "lion" as they weren't aware of the existence of lions until they established contacts with the Romans. The second part is of Germanic origin and means "brave", compare "bold". The name hence originally meant something close to "as brave as a lion". The name has been observed since the 5th century, including by the Frank Gregory of Tours, and the name gradually spread across Western Europe and during the 16th century it became popular in the southern Holy Roman Empire, due to the influence of the Margraves of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty.

Over a dozen Austrian rulers took the name Leopold, as did nearly a dozen from other European realms.

Other notable people bearing this name include:

  • Leopold Auer Hungarian violinist, conductor, and composer
  • Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, French Duke
  • Léopold Clément Charles, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine, son of the above
  • Léopold Eyharts, French astronaut
  • Leopold Kronecker, 19th-century mathematician
  • Leopold Mandić, a Croatian Catholic saint
  • Leopold von Ranke, German historian
  • Leopold Pokagon, An Potawatomi Indian Chief
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal
  • Leopold Stokowski, a 20th-century conductor
  • Leopold Vietoris (1891–2002), Austrian mathematician
  • Leopold Mozart, an 18th-century composer and father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Leopold I (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Leopold II (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Leopold De Rossi, Italian merchant
  • Leopold Duncan Sarrabo, Black general who helped liberate the South American country Guyana from the oppressive rule of the British
  • Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses
  • Leopold "Butters" Stotch, a character on the American comedy series South Park

Usage examples of "leopold".

Leopold Strabismus, president of Universal Space Associates and chancellor of the University of Space and Aviation, for he knew in his bones that massive changes were under way in American life and that space was only a fragment of the whole.

For all that he was a true son of Gonzaga, being a son of Leopold, who was also poor, and a girl of the Medini family, sister to the Medini who died in prison at London in the year 1787.

Henry Lionel Leopold dear Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags.

The archway and stairway of the hotel were draped with the Bavarian colors, and they were obscurely flattered to learn that Prince Leopold, the brother of the Prince-Regent of the kingdom, had taken rooms there, on his way to the manoeuvres at Nuremberg, and was momently expected with his suite.

Thereat laughed they all right jocundly only young Stephen and sir Leopold which never durst laugh too open by reason of a strange humour which he would not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might be or wheresoever.

The name of the cantata has not been ascertained, though Thayer conjectures it to have been on the death of the Emperor Leopold II.

At 5:35 he again picked up the phone, but this time he poked out a direct-dial to a public telephone which was located several Pittsfield city blocks from the home of Leopold Turrin, a caporegime in Bolan's home town, scene of the original conflagration point of this impossible damned war.

It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred.

This same year, attending the coronation of Leopold at Prague, Casanova met his grandson (and, probably, as he himself believed, his own son), the son of Leonilda, who was the daughter of Casanova and Donna Lucrezia, and who was married to the Marquis C .

Leopold Lehon, "Know, sir, that my name is Charras and not Vincent, and that I belong to a family whose members have always borne the name of their father.

Lord Milner, Leopold Amery, Lord Brand, Sir Edward Grey, Lord Cecil, and several others represented the British aristocracy.

There are some Remington autoloading 30-06s with Leopold scopes, for hitting something hard when you don't want to get near it.

He led Leopold and Connie through a plastic accordion door into a large banquet room.

If none of those protectorate worlds was precisely a hell-hole, a modern equivalent of the King Leopolds Congo of ancient legend, they did bear a close resemblance to what had once been called banana republics and company towns.

Leopold asked, not even glancing at Huff—which, Darlington reflected, boded ill for the citizen commander when Leopold turned in his report.