Given name · Yiddish
שפּרינצע
“hope”
שפּרינצע (shprintse) is a feminine given name from Old Spanish, ultimately from Middle High German. It is used in Yiddish.
YiddishWritten in Hebrew script, read right to left. In English: shprintse.
Meaning & origin
What it means
שפּרינצע goes back to Latin sperata, meaning “hope.”
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Where it comes from
שפּרינצע comes from Old Spanish, and ultimately from Middle High German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Spanish esperanza, from Latin sperata (“hope”), from Middle High German sprinze (“female sparrowhawk”).
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שפּרינצע’s family of names
In Yiddish usage, שפּרינצע shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Esperanza. In Yiddish usage, שפּרינצע can be written in the Roman alphabet as shprintse.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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