Nietzsche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Nietzsche.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈniːtʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnit͡ʃə/

  • Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Nietzsche

1. A surname from German, most famously borne by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher.
   • 1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:

     You would not like Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

Derived terms

• Nietzschean
• Nietzscheanism
• Nietzscheism
• Nietzschesque

 

Translations

surname

• Amharic: ኒሺ (niši), ኒትሸ (nitšä)
• Arabic: نِتْشَه (nitšah), نِتْشَة (nitša)
• Armenian: Նիցշե (Nicʻše)
• Azerbaijani: Nitsşe
• Belarusian: Ні́цшэ (Nícše)
• Bengali: নিৎশে (nitśe)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: নীৎসে, নিৎসে
• Cherokee: ᏂᏥ (nitsi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 尼采 (nei⁴ coi²)

  Mandarin: 尼采 (zh) (Nícǎi)

• Czech: Nietzsche m, Nietzscheová f, Nietzschová f
• Esperanto: Niĉeo
• Finnish: Nietzsche
• Georgian: ნიცშე (nicše)
• German: Nietzsche
• Greek: Νίτσε (el) (Nítse)
• Hebrew: נִיטְשֶׁה (Nítshe)
• Hindi: नीत्शे (nītśe)
• Irish: Nítse
• Japanese: ニーチェ (Nīche)
• Korean: 니체 (Niche)
• Latvian: Nīče, Nīcše
• Lithuanian: Nyčė
• Malayalam: നീച്ച (nīcca)
• Marathi: नित्ची (nitcī)
• Nepali: नीत्शे (nītśe)
• Oromo: Niichee
• Persian: نیچه (niče)
• Punjabi: ਨੀਤਸ਼ੇ (nītśe)
• Russian: Ни́цше (ru) (Nícše)
• Samogitian: Nīčė
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ниче

  Roman: Nietzsche, Niče

• Tagalog: Nietzsche
• Tamil: நீட்சே (nīṭcē)
• Thai: นีทเชอ (nîit-chəə)
• Tigrinya: ኒሺ (niši), ኒትሸ (nitšä)
• Ukrainian: Ні́цше (Nícše)
• Uzbek: Nitsshe
• Vietnamese: Nietzsche, Nít-sơ
• Yiddish: ניצשע (nitsshe)

Anagrams

• Zechstein

German

Alternative forms

• Nietzsch, Nietsch, Nietsche, Nitzsch, Nitzsche, Nitsch, Nitsche

Etymology

From East Central German, from a Slavic diminutive of Latin Nicolaus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːt͡ʃə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Nietzsche m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Nietzsches or (with an article) Nietzsche, plural Nietzsches or Nietzsche)

1. a surname

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Nietzsche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲi.t͡ʂɛ/
• Rhymes: -it͡ʂɛ
• Syllabification: Nie‧tzsche

Proper noun

Nietzsche m pers

1. (philosophy) Friedrich Nietzsche

Declension

Declension of Nietzsche

	singular
nominative	Nietzsche
genitive	Nietzschego
dative	Nietzschemu
accusative	Nietzschego
instrumental	Nietzschem
locative	Nietzschem
vocative	Nietzsche

Derived terms

adjective

• nietzscheański

 

nouns

• nietzscheanista
• nietzscheanizm

 

Further reading

• Nietzsche in Polish dictionaries at PWN