Matilda

• Mathilda

From Old French Mathilde, from Old High German maht, meht (“might”) + hild, hilta (“battle”).

• IPA^(key): /məˈtɪldə/

Matilda

1. A female given name.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto III, stanza 13:

     But wondrously begotten, and begonne / By false illusion of a guilefull Spright, / On a faire Ladie Nonne, that whilome hight / Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, […]

   • 1844 George Payne Rainsford James, Rose D'Albret, Or, Troublous Times, a Romance, Harper [1844) page 20:

     Countess of Laussitz - Matilda, too, by the mark! A good name, a marvellous good name, is not, Algernon? Musical, pretty, soft, smoothing, loveable. - - - many a fair prospect is spoiled by the mistake in the name. Call Matilda Joan, or Louisa Deborah, and you are ruined forever!

   • 1990 Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth.Stories, →ISBN, page 187:

     At one time Joan invented other names for her. 'Matilda' brought to mind dingy curtains, gray tent flaps, a slack-skinned old woman. How about Sharon? Lilliane? Elizabeth? Then, Joan didn't know how, the name Matilda became transformed. It started shining like silver. The "il" in it was silver. But not metallic. In Joan's mind the name gleamed now like a fold of satin.

• variants: Maud, Maude, Maudie
• pet forms: Mattie, Matty, Tilda, Tillie, Tilly

Matilda (plural Matildas)

1. (Britain, army, historical) Either of two British infantry tanks in use during World War II, the Infantry Tank Mark I or Infantry Tank Mark II.

• (infantry tank): Matilda I, Matilda II

Matilda f

1. A female given name

Matronymics

• son of Matilda: Matilduson
• daughter of Matilda: Matildudóttir

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑtildɑ]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧til‧da

Matilda

1. A female given name, cognate to English Matilda.

• Tilda

• Matilde

Old French Mathilde, from Old High German maht, meht (“might”) + hild, hilta (“battle”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈtiɫ.dɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃiw.dɐ/

Matilda f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Matilda

• IPA^(key): /ˈmatiɫda/

Matilda f (genitive Matildy, nominative plural Matildy) declension pattern žena

1. A female given name.

• Matilda in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• Mathilda

Matilda c (genitive Matildas)

1. A female given name, cognate to English Matilda.

• Maud, Tilda, Tilde