Gualtiero

Italian

Alternative forms

• Gualtieri, Gualterio

Etymology

Name of Germanic origin: from Old Northern French Waltier, from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwalˈtjɛ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛro
• Hyphenation: Gual‧tiè‧ro

Proper noun

Gualtiero m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Walter
   • 1872 [c. 1309], chapter XXXIX (chapter 39), in Giovanni Galvani, transl., La sesta crociata, ovvero l'istoria della santa vita di re Luigi IX di Francia [The Sixth Crusade, or The story of the saintly life of king Louis IX of France]‎^[1], Bologna: Gaetano Romagnoli, translation of Livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs by Jean de Joinville (in Old French), page 184:

     […] primieramente vi dirò di Monsignore Messer Gualtiero di Castillione, del quale udii parlare ad un Cavaliere che lo avea veduto in una ruga presso Kasel

     [original: Premièrement vous diray de monseigneur messire Gaultier de Chastillon, duquel je ouy parler à ung chevalier qui l’avoit veu en une ruë prés du Kasel]

     I will firstly tell you about monsignor sir Walter of Châtillon, of whom I heard a knight speak, who once saw him on a street near Kasel

Derived terms

• Gualtieri (surname)

See also

• Walter