Totenkopf
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Totenkopf (literally “dead person's head”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Totenkopf
Noun
[edit]Totenkopf (plural Totenkopfs)
- (military) A death's head used as a military emblem.
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Toter (“dead person”) + Kopf (“head”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Totenkopf m (strong, genitive Totenkopfes or Totenkopfs, plural Totenköpfe)
- death's head, skull and crossbones (symbol of death, piracy, etc.)
- 1832, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust, Part Two][2]:
- Dort wo die alten Schachteln stehn, / Hier im bebräunten Pergamen, / In staubigen Scherben alter Töpfe, / Dem Hohlaug’ jener Todtenköpfe.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1920, Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letzter Abend”, in Neue Gedichte[3], Leipzig: Insel-Verlag:
- Sein Spiel gab nach. Von draußen wehte Frische. / Und seltsam fremd stand auf dem Spiegeltische / der schwarze Tschako mit dem Totenkopf.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Totenkopf [masculine, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Totenkopf | die | Totenköpfe |
genitive | eines | des | Totenkopfes, Totenkopfs | der | Totenköpfe |
dative | einem | dem | Totenkopf, Totenkopfe1 | den | Totenköpfen |
accusative | einen | den | Totenkopf | die | Totenköpfe |
1Now rare, see notes.
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