Bertram
English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *berhtaz (“bright”) + *hrabnaz (“raven”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɜːtɹəm/
Quotations
- 1598 William Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well: Act I, Scene I :
- Be thou blest, Bertram; and succeed thy father / In manners, as in shape!
- 1979 Catherine Aird, Some Die Eloquent, Doubleday (1980), →ISBN, page 77:
- "He doesn't use Bertram," Sloan informed him. "They told me at the bank." "Don't blame him." "He's always known as George." "Never Bertram," noted Leeyes. "People can be funny about Christian names."
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