Voltaire

See also: voltaire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Voltaire. The surname is mostly found in Haiti.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəʊlˈtɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /voʊlˈtɛɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Voltaire (countable and uncountable, plural Voltaires)

1. A surname from French.
2. A pen name of the French philosopher François-Marie Arouet.
3. A city in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States.

Derived terms

• Voltairean
• Voltaireanism
• Voltairian
• Voltairianism
• Voltairism

 

Translations

pen name of French philosopher

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伏爾泰 / 伏尔泰 (zh) (Fú'ěrtài)

• Finnish: Voltaire
• Khmer: វ៉ុលទែរ (voltɛɛ)
• Polish: Wolter m
• Portuguese: Voltaire m

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Voltaire is the 24554^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1018 individuals. Voltaire is most common among Black/African American (86.25%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Voltaire”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• violater