Romuald (first name)
Romuald is a male name .
Origin and meaning of the name
The name Romuald is made up of the Old High German words (h) ruom "Ruhm, Lob" and -walt to waltan "rule, rule". The name means "the glorious ruler" or "the glorious ruler".
variants
Ru (o) m-walt is to be assumed as the original form . The Germanic bilabial w (as it is still spoken in English today) was either reproduced in Romanic transcription with u / o - initially with gu - or omitted entirely. In various dialects , the name mixed with the originally independent Ru (o) m-bold . The -al- of the second syllable was legally pronounced -ou- in Dutch and -au- (today -ô- ) in French .
- male: Romoald , Romwald , Romwalt , Rumold , Rombout , Rumbold , Romaldas
- feminine: a feminine form of the name is not used
Well-known namesake (chronological)
- Rumold, name of the chef in the Nibelungenlied
- Romuald I († 687), Duke of Benevento
- Romuald II († 731/732) Duke of Benevento
- Rumold von Mechelen (also: Rumbold, Rombout, Rombaut; † end of the 8th century), saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- Romuald (around 836), Bishop of Anagni (Italy)
- Romuald (also Romuald of Camaldoli; around 951-1027) saint and founder of the Camaldolese order
- Romuald of Salerno (also Romuald Guarna; around 1115–1181), historian and archbishop of Salerno
- Romuald Haimblinger 1697–1708 Abbot of Ettal Monastery
- Romuald Hadbavný (1714–1780), Slovak Camaldolese
- Romuald Weltin (1723–1805), 26th abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen
- Romuald Hube (1803–1890), Polish legal scholar
- Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski Count von Gołuchowo (senior) (1812–1875), Austrian minister and governor of Galicia
- Romuald Božek (1814–1899), Czech inventor and designer
- Romuald Traugutt (1826–1864), Polish general and politician
- Charles Romuald Gardès (1887 / 1890–1935), tango singer and composer
- Romuald Pekny (1920–2007), Austrian actor
- Romuald Grinblat (1930–1995), Russian composer
- Romuald Twardowski (* 1930), Polish composer and teacher
- Romuald Iossifowitsch Klim (1933–2011), Belarusian hammer thrower
- Romuald Niescher (1933-2017), Austrian politician (ÖVP)
- Romuald Figuier (* 1941), French singer
- Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel (* 1943) Polish Roman Catholic priest
- Romuald Ajchler (* 1949), Polish politician
- Romuald Schaber (* 1957), chairman and founder of the Federal Association of German Dairy Farmers (BDM) eV
- Romuald Hazoumé (* 1962; actually Romuald Hâtozoumê,) Benin artist
- Romuald Mainka (* 1963), German chess master
- Romuald Karmakar (* 1965) director and screenwriter
- Romuald Boco (* 1985) French-Beninese football player
- Romuald Lacazette (* 1994), French football player
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Drosdowski: Duden. Lexicon of first names. Origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names. 2nd edition Mannheim 1974, p. 182 under the Lemma Rumold .
- ↑ For the second part of the name see "soon"
- ^ Günther Drosdowski: Duden. Lexicon of first names. Origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names. 2nd edition Mannheim 1974, p. 182.