Battenberg

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See also: battenberg

English

Etymology

From German Battenberg. The surname derives from the town in Hesse.

Proper noun

Battenberg (countable and uncountable, plural Battenbergs)

  1. (countable) A surname from German, anglicized in 1917 as Mountbatten.
  2. A small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, Germany.
    Synonym: (officially) Battenberg (Eder)
    • 2017, Damien Trench, Miles Jupp, Egg and Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir‎, Hachette, →ISBN:
      Incidentally, Anthony and I once visited the town of Battenberg, on a sort of pilgrimage. It's a pretty little spot in the Waldeck-Frankenberg state of Hesse, although no one is much interested in talking about cake there.
  3. A town in Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
    Synonym: (officially) Battenberg (Pfalz)

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Noun

Battenberg (plural Battenbergs)

  1. Ellipsis of Battenberg cake.

Alternative forms

Further reading

German

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Etymology

Inherited from Old High German Bettenberg, from Batto, a personal name from Proto-West Germanic *badu (“battle”) + berg (“mountain, hill”).[1] The surname derives from the town in Hesse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbatn̩bɛʁk/
  • Hyphenation: Bat‧ten‧berg

Proper noun

Battenberg m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Battenbergs or (with an article) Battenberg, feminine genitive Battenberg, plural Battenbergs)

  1. a surname, Battenberg, transferred from the place name, equivalent to English Mountbatten

Proper noun

Battenberg n (proper noun, genitive Battenbergs or (optionally with an article) Battenberg)

  1. Battenberg (a town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, Germany)
  2. Battenberg (a town in Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)

Derived terms

  • Battenberger

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Karn, Georg Peter (2006) Kreis Bad Dürkheim (in German), volume 2, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, →ISBN, page 223
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