Alfred

From Middle English Alfred, from Old English Ælfrǣd, from ælf (“elf”) +‎ rǣd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfredo and Avery.

The modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; the name in Old English was pronounced with [v], as shown in its Middle English descendant Alured (in which u stands for modern v).

• IPA^(key): /ˈælfɹəd/
• (Appalachians, dated) IPA^(key): /ˈælfɚd/[1]

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Alfred

1. (individuals) Alfred the Great, early king of England.

   Alternative form: Ælfred

2. A male given name from Old English.
   • 1980, Graham Greene, Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb Party (fiction), →OCLC:

     Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred, one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter.

   • 1998, Steven Herrick, A Place Like This (fiction), University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life.

3. (rare) A surname originating as a patronymic.
4. A town, the county seat of York County, Maine, United States.
5. A town in Allegany County, New York, United States.
6. A community in Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.

• Alfreda f
• Alfredo, alfredo, fettuccine Alfredo
• Avery

• Alfred (name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alfred the Great on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alfred, Maine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alfred, New York on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Falder, fardel, fardle, farled, flared, larfed

Alfred

1. A transliteration of the English male given name Alfred.
   • 2004, Şəkərəliyev, A. Ş., Əliyev, Ş.T., Cavadov M. Ə., editors, Nobel Mükafatı almış iqtisadçılar və onların nəzəriyyələri‎, Baku: Elm, page 5:

     Alfred Nobel 21 oktyabr 1833-cü ildə İsveçdə anadan olmuş, 8 yaşı olarkən atası Emmanuil Nobelin çalışdığı Sankt-Peterburqa köçmüşdür.

     Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden on October 21, 1833, and at the age of eight, moved to St. Petersburg, where his father, Emmanuel Nobel, was working.

   • 2006, Gylman Ilkin, Bakı və Bakılılar, page 149:

     Bu şirkətin müəssisləri üç qardaş: Lüdoviq, Robert, Alfred və bir də onların yaxın dostu […]

     The founders of this company were three brothers: Ludvig, Robert, Alfred and one of their close friends […]

   • 2019, Manaf Süleymanov, Eşitdiklərim, oxuduqlarım, gördüklərim, page 185:

     Arvadı və iki oğlu Alfred və Elmar ilə Peterburqdan vətənə qayıdır […]

     He returned home from St. Petersburg with his wife and two sons, Alfred and Elmar […]

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

Alfred

1. a male given name

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 21 194 males with the given name Alfred have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Borrowed from English Alfred.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.frɛt/
• Hyphenation: Al‧fred

Alfred m

1. a male given name

Ultimately, from Old English Ælfræd.

Alfred m

1. a male given name

Patronymics:

• son of Alfred: Alfredsson
• daughter of Alfred: Alfredsdóttir

From English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd, possibly through Swedish Alfred.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlfred/, [ˈɑ̝lfre̞d]
• Rhymes: -ɑlfred
• Syllabification^(key): Alf‧red

Alfred

1. a male given name
2. Alfred Nussi

• Alfred is the 513^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 389 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,583 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

• IPA^(key): /al.fʁɛd/

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Alfred m

1. a male given name
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, volume 1, Book 4:1 (fiction):

     Il n’est pas rare aujourd’hui que le garçon bouvier se nomme Arthur, Alfred ou Alphonse, et que le vicomte — s’il y a encore des vicomtes — se nomme Thomas, Pierre ou Jacques. Ce déplacement qui met le nom « élégant » sur le plébéien et le nom campagnard sur l’aristocrate n’est autre chose qu’un remous d’égalité. L’irrésistible pénétration du souffle nouveau est là comme en tout.

     It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as everywhere else.

     (1887 translation by Isabel F. Hapgood)

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalfʁeːt/

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• Hyphenation: Al‧f‧red

Alfred

1. a male given name, popular in the 19th century

Ultimately, from Old English Ælfræd.

Alfred m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alfred

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

Alfred

1. a male given name

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.frɛt/

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• Rhymes: -alfrɛt
• Syllabification: Al‧fred

Alfred m pers

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alfred

• Alfred in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1751.

Alfred c (genitive Alfreds)

1. a male given name, fashionable in the 19th century

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