Malcolm
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English
Etymology
Royal name in Scotland, anglicised from various historical Goidelic names equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim or Calum, Irish Maol Colm, Middle Irish Máel Coluim, Old Irish Máel Columb (literally “devotee of Columba”); proper nouns derived from máel (“tonsured”) from Proto-Celtic *mailos, and columb (“dove”) from Latin columbus.[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: mălʹkəm, IPA(key): /ˈmæl.kəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
Malcolm
- A male given name from Scottish Gaelic or Goidelic, variant of Calum or Callum, feminine equivalent Malcolmina, equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- We will establish our estate upon / Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter / The Prince of Cumberland.
- A surname.
- A place name:
- A minor city in Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland, United States.
- A village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.
- An abandoned town in the Shire of Leonora, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.