Gustav

See also: Gustáv

English

Alternative forms

• Gustave, Gustavus

Etymology

A royal name in Sweden, traditionally explained (even by Gustav I Vasa himself) as Swedish göt + staf "staff (=support) of the Geats (southern Swedes)". But there is no such name in Old Norse, and Gustav is more probably a Swedish rendering of Old Polish / north-west Slavic Gostislav, from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Proper noun

Gustav (plural Gustavs)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Derived terms

• Gus

 

Translations

given name

• Bengali: গুস্তাভ (gustabh)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古斯塔夫 (Gǔsītǎfū)

• Corsican: Gustavu m
• Czech: Gustav (cs)
• Danish: Gustav
• Dutch: Gustaaf (nl) m
• Esperanto: Gustavo
• Estonian: Gustav, Kustav
• Finnish: Kustaa (fi)
• French: Gustave (fr) m
• Galician: Gustavo (gl) m
• German: Gustav (de)
• Greek: Γουσταύος (el) m (Goustávos)
• Greenlandic: Kuutak
• Hindi: गुस्ताव (gustāv)
• Hungarian: Gusztáv (hu)
• Icelandic: Gústaf (is), Gústav (is)
• Italian: Gustavo (it) m
• Latin: Gustavus m
• Latvian: Gustavs m
• Norwegian: Gustav (no)
• Polish: Gustaw (pl)
• Portuguese: Gustavo (pt) m
• Russian: Густав (ru) m (Gustav)
• Spanish: Gustavo (es)
• Swedish: Gustav (sv) c, Gustaf (sv) c
• West Frisian: Gustaaf m

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡustaf]

Proper noun

Gustav m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Gustav

Declension

Declension of Gustav (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Gustav	Gustavové
genitive	Gustava	Gustavů
dative	Gustavovi, Gustavu	Gustavům
accusative	Gustava	Gustavy
vocative	Gustave	Gustavové
locative	Gustavovi, Gustavu	Gustavech
instrumental	Gustavem	Gustavy

Danish

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔsˌtɑw]

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

Estonian

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

Related terms

• Kusta, Kustas, Kustav

Faroese

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, from Old Swedish Gøtstaf, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊs.tav/

Proper noun

Gustav m

1. a male given name

Usage notes

Patronymics

• son of Gustav: Gustavsson
• daughter of Gustav: Gustavsdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Gustav
Accusative	Gustav
Dative	Gustavi
Genitive	Gustavs

German

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name from Swedish

Norwegian

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Gustaf

Etymology

From Old Swedish Gøtstaf, from Old Norse Gautr (“Geats”) +‎ stafr (“staff”), or maybe from Slavic (compare Old Polish Gościsław, Goscław, Czech Hostislav), from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”). First recorded as Swedish given name in 1521.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Interjection

Gustav

1. The letter "G" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

Proper noun

Gustav c (genitive Gustavs)

1. a male given name

Usage notes

• Royal name, and popular given name in Sweden since the sixteenth century.

Derived terms

• Gustavsson

 

Related terms

• (male given names) Gösta
• (female given names) Gustava
• (surnames) Gustafsson, Gustavsson

Descendants

• English: Gustav
• French: Gustave
• Latin: Gustavus

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 80 029 males with the given name Gustav (compared to 43 816 named Gustaf) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams

• utgavs