Arnold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹnəld/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəld
Forms: form: Ahnold
Etymology: From a French version of a Germanic name, from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) + *waldą (“power”). For the first part of the word doublet of erne, ornis, and ornitho-.
Compare the Latin male given name and cognomen Aquila, and female given name Aquilīna (whence Russian Акули́на (Akulína)), related to aquila (whence eagle).
Senses: examples: text: Arnold used to be a name only a mother could love, but it does not mean nerd anymore. Since Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped out of the gym and onto the screen, it has come to suggest popping delts and giant pecs, a world of undisputed macho.
ref: 1987 December 7, Newsweek, page 44:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages brought to England by Normans.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1241).
glosses: A market town in Gedling borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5945).
glosses: A small town in the Shire of Loddon, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California.
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An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.
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An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois.
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An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Illinois.
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An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, Iowa.
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An unincorporated community in Ness County, Kansas.
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A census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
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An unincorporated community in Marquette County, Michigan.
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A former census-designated place in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, now part of the city of Rice Lake.
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A city in Jefferson County, Missouri.
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A village in Custer County, Nebraska.
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An unincorporated community in Union County, Ohio.
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A city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
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An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
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An unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia.
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An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
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An unincorporated community in Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: sense: pet form
word: Arnie
word: Arnold's Cove
word: Arnold's cat map
word: Arnold-Chiari malformation
word: Arnold Palmer
word: Arnold Schwarzenegger
word: Arnoldian
word: Arnoldianism
word: Arnoldist
word: Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem
word: Thorpe Arnold
Related terms: erne
-ornis
ornitho-