Václav
Czech
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Etymology
[edit]Contraction of a Slavic (Old Czech Vácslav) name, appearing in English as Wenceslaus, from Proto-Slavic *Vęťeslavъ. By surface analysis, více + -slav (with the same meaning as Boleslav).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Václav m anim
- a male given name
Declension
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Vacek”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- “Václav”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Václav m pers (genitive singular Václava, nominative plural Václavovia, declension pattern of chlap)
- a male given name
Declension
[edit]Declension of Václav
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Václav”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
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