Percival
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Pursifull
Etymology
From Old French Perceval, name of a knight in a twelfth century Arthurian romance by the French poet Chrétien de Troyes. Shaped like Old French percier (“pierce”) + val (“valley”), but probably representing some Gaulish or Old Welsh name, possibly related to Welsh Peredur, from ber (“spear, lance”) (from Middle Welsh ber, from Proto-Brythonic *ber, from Proto-Celtic *beru (“spit”)) + dur (“hard metal, steel”) (see Latin durus).
Cognate with German Parzival and Parsifal.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Percival
- A male given name from the Celtic languages.
- 1953, Agatha Christie, A Pocket Full of Rye, page 20:
- Lancelot Fortescue! What a name! And what was the other son - Percival? He wondered what the first Mrs Fortescue had been like? She had a curious taste in Christian names...
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fremont County, Iowa, United States.
- A former hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.