Hamlet

Meaning

1. A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
2. The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.
3. A male given name.
4. A surname.
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13. A locality in Alberta, Canada, named after William Hamlet.
14. A settlement in Gittisham parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, just outside Honiton (OS grid ref SY1499).
15. A hamlet in Yetminster parish and Chetnole parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST5908).

Translations

Hamlet

Hamlet

Amleto

Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet

Άμλετ

hameau

Hamlet

Gehucht

Prince de Danemark

La Tragédie d’Hamlet

Amletus

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhæm.lɪt/

Etymology

Cognate with Old Norse: Amlóði

In summary

From Latin Amlethus, as written by 13th-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, and borrowed into English by way of François de Belleforest's French Hamlet, originally rendered as Hamblet in English. Ultimately from Old Danish Amlethæ, corresponding to Old Norse Amlóði (“fool”), claimed to be suggestive of the way that Hamlet acts in the play, from ama (“to annoy”).