Given name & surname

Gerlachus

“spear thrower”

Gerlachus is a masculine given name from Germanic. It is used in Latin.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Gerlachus goes back to a word meaning “spear thrower.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Gerlachus comes from Germanic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Gerlachus’s family of names

In Latin usage, Gerlachus as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Gerlach.

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The ring: across languages.

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