Waldemar

Borrowed from German Waldemar in the 19th century. Compare Vladimir, from Slavic, and the Scandinavian name Valdemar.

Waldemar

1. (rare) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 9:

     If, as a stranger in our land, you should require the aid of other judgment to guide your own, we can only say that Alicia, the daughter of our gallant knight Waldemar Fitzurse, has at our court been long held the first in beauty as in place.

• Vladimir

From an Old High German compound name, from the elements waltan (“rule, govern”) (from Proto-West Germanic *wald) + māri (“famous, great”) (from *mārī).[1]

Merged with Scandinavian Valdemar, apparently from the semantically and formally similar Slavic name *Voldiměrъ, which is sometimes considered to also derive from the same pre-Old High German name *waldimӕ̄r-.[1]

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Waldemar

1. a male given name

• IPA^(key): /valˈdɛ.mar/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmar
• Syllabification: Wal‧de‧mar

Borrowed from Old Danish rendering of Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ, reshaped like the semantically and formally similar Old Norse Valdimarr. Doublet of Włodzimierz.

Waldemar m pers (female equivalent Waldemara, diminutive Waldek)

1. a male given name

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Waldemar f

1. genitive plural of Waldemara

• Waldemar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Waldemar m

1. a male given name, variant of Valdemar

Waldemar c (genitive Waldemars)

1. a male given name, a less common spelling of Valdemar