wenceslas

/ˈwɛnsəsˌlɑs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English

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"Good King Wenceslas look'd out, On the Feast of Stephen; / When the snow lay round about, Deep, and crisp, and e-ven: / Brightly shone the moon that night, Though the frost was cru-el, / When a poor man came in sight, Gath'ring win-ter fu-el."

From French Wenceslas (variant of Venceslas), from Medieval Latin Wenceslaus.

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How do you pronounce wenceslas?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈwɛnsəsˌlɑs/.

What does wenceslas mean?

A male given name from the Slavic languages.

Where does wenceslas come from?

It is traced to French.

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