Stieglitz
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Stieglitz.
Proper noun
[edit]Stieglitz (plural Stieglitzes)
- A surname from German.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Stieglitz is the 36099th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 621 individuals. Stieglitz is most common among White (93.72%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stieglitz”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle High German stigliz, stigelitze, from Old Czech stehlec, derived from Proto-Slavic *ščegъlъ. Cognate with modern Czech stehlík, Slovak stehlík, Polish szczygieł, Ukrainian щи́голь (ščýholʹ), Russian щего́л (ščegól), all referring to the same bird.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Stieglitz m (strong, genitive Stieglitzes, plural Stieglitze)
- European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
- Synonym: Distelfink
- 1821, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years][1], volume 3:
- Zeisige und Stieglitze, in Käfigen aufgehangen, zwitschern dazwischen, und nicht leicht möchte ein Bild regeren Lebens gefunden werden als in einer Stube, wo mehrere Spinnerinnen arbeiten.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Stieglitz [masculine, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Stieglitz | die | Stieglitze |
genitive | eines | des | Stieglitzes | der | Stieglitze |
dative | einem | dem | Stieglitz, Stieglitze1 | den | Stieglitzen |
accusative | einen | den | Stieglitz | die | Stieglitze |
1Now rare, see notes.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Finnish: tikli (or from Middle Low German)
- → Serbo-Croatian: štìglec, štìglic, štìglić
- → Slovene: štiglic
- → Swedish: steglits (or from Middle Low German)
- → Upper Sorbian: štiglica
Further reading
[edit]- “Stieglitz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Stieglitz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Stieglitz” in Duden online
- “Stieglitz” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Stieglitz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Matzenauer, Antonín (1870) Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 82
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