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[ˈvracɪslaf] · Czech
01 / Meaning & origin
Vratislav is a masculine given name documented in Czech, Slovak and Old Slovak. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it.
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Equivalent to vrátit (“return”) + -slav
Composé de vrátit et de sláva, littéralement « qui revient couvert de gloire », pour le nom de la ville, calque du polonais Wrocław qui lui est apparenté.
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VRATISLAV— “brilliant fame”
It is a curious feature in nomenclature how strongly glory and fame are the leading notion of the entire race, whose national title of glory has had such a fall. _Slav_ is an inevitable termination; _voj_ almost as constantly used; and even the tenderest commencements are forced to love war, and to love fame. The old Russian Mstisslav glories in vengeance (_mest_), but is usually recorded as Mistislaus; Rostislav increases glory; Vratislav, Glowing glory, names not only the…
It is a curious feature in nomenclature how strongly glory and fame are the leading notion of the entire race, whose national title of glory has had such a fall. _Slav_ is an inevitable termination; _voj_ almost as constantly used; and even the tenderest commencements are forced to love war, and to love fame. The old Russian Mstisslav glories in vengeance (_mest_), but is usually recorded as Mistislaus; Rostislav increases glory; Vratislav, Glowing glory, names not only the Wratislaus of history, but the city of Breslaw. The Slovak Vekoslav, and Vekoslava, are Eternal fame.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VII (Names From The Slavonic), Section III (Warlike Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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