Roswitha (first name)

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Roswitha is an old German female given name .

Origin and meaning

The female first name Roswitha has its origins in Old High German and Germanic . It can be broken down into the components "hroud" and "swiths". "Hroud" means something like fame in Old High German and "swiths" means strong. This makes Roswitha a man of fame, someone who is strong in fame.

Name variants

Some very old variants of the name are: Hrotsvit, Hrotsvitha, Rosweidis, Hroswitha and Roswita. The name appears abbreviated as Rosi or Rossi.

Contrary to what is often claimed, there is no male form of Roswitha in the Old High German name Roswin, as this is itself derived from "hroswini", the horse lover. A male form is therefore not known.

name day

  • March 30th - Some sources mention September 5th or March 30th - as the day of the death of the holy poet, mystic and nun, Hrotsvit - as the day of the name Roswitha.
  • April 29th - The Catholic feast day of the name Roswitha is on April 29th . This date falls on the day of the death of St. Rosweidis (Roswitha) von Liesborn . Born in the 8th century, died on April 29th in the 9th century , she is venerated as a nun, abbess of the Liesborn Benedictine monastery and as a Catholic saint.

Well-known namesake

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Drosdowski - Duden lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names , Bibliographisches Institut (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974, (page 180)

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