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“sword [= defensor?] of the people”
Language context for this entry: Latin
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01 / Meaning & origin
Liutprand is a masculine given name documented in Latin. English Wiktionary records the meaning “sword [= defensor?] of the people”.
Meaning: “sword [= defensor?] of the people”
Borrowed from Lombardic, from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”) + *brandaz (“flame; sword”), literally “sword [= defensor?] of the people”.
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LIUTPRAND— “people’s sword”
Liutgarde seems to have been a Frank saint, but there is no account of her in Alban Butler; but hers is one of the favourite old names at Cambrai. Liutprand, the people’s sword, is one of the chief chroniclers of early French history, and the other forms are Liuther, the only one accepted by the North, and that in the form of Lyder.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter VI (Descriptive Names), Section IX (Locality) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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