Leonard
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈlɛnɚd/
- A male given name.
- 1844 Catherine Gore, The Birthright and Other Tales, Henry Colburn 1844, page 251:
- - - - save the delight of being called "Leo" by those whom the newspapers call "the leading fashionables", whereas, had he stuck to the city, he might still have been called only Leonard, like his father before him.
- 1997 Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon&Schuster 1998, ISBN 0684848155, page 592:
- "You want names, I'll give you names. My name is Leonard Alfred Schneider. What was I doing when I took the name Lenny Bruce? I was moving towards the invisible middle.
- 1844 Catherine Gore, The Birthright and Other Tales, Henry Colburn 1844, page 251:
- Surname derived from the given name. Also used as an anglicisation of the Irish Ó Leannáin (Lennon).
- French: Léonard
- German: Leonhard
- Italian: Leonardo
- Portuguese: Leonardo
- Russian: Леона́рд
- Spanish: Leonardo
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