Malcolm
English
editEtymology
editRoyal 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 [Saint] Columba”); proper nouns derived from máel (“tonsured”) from Proto-Celtic *mailos, and columb (“dove”) from Latin columbus.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: mălʹkəm, IPA(key): /ˈmæl.kəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
editMalcolm
- 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
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