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Battenberg
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battenberg
English
Etymology
From en de Battenberg. The surname derives from the town in Hesse.
Proper noun
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en countable en German, anglicized in 1917 as Mountbatten.
en small town district/Waldeck-Frankenberg s/Hesse c/Germany.
en Battenberg (Eder)<q:officially>
en 2017 Damien Trench; Miles Jupp Egg and Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir Hachette 9781472239921 https://books.google.com/books?id=UvQZDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT92&dq=%22Battenberg+cake%22&hl=&cd=6&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Battenberg%20cake%22&f=false Incidentally, Anthony and I once visited the town of Battenberg, on a sort of pilgrimage. It's a pretty little spot in the Waldeck-Frankenberg state of Hesse, although no one is much interested in talking about cake there.
en town district/Bad Dürkheim s/Rhineland-Palatinate c/Germany.
en Battenberg (Pfalz)<q:officially>
Derived terms
en Battenberg lace Battenberg cake Battenberger Mountbatten
Translations
surname
German: de Battenberg
Greek: el Μπάττενμπεργκ
Marathi: mr बाटनबेर्क
Noun
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en Battenberg cake.
6 August 2017 Helen Russell Why making friends as a grown-up is scary – and how to do it anyway https://web.archive.org/web/20170806144701/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/making-friends-grown-scary-do-anyway/ I’m more of a Radio 4-and-a-slice-of-Battenberg type of girl, yet here I am, dancing, drinking, and, inevitably, ending up in the ladies’ loos with two women who were strangers 24 hours ago, applying lipstick and trying not to suffocate in a cloud of Elnett.
Alternative forms
en battenberg
Further reading
Battenberg family
Battenberg (Eder)
Battenberg (Pfalz)
en eponyms terms derived from toponyms
German
de:
Etymology
de goh Bettenberg, from goh Batto, a personal name from de gmw-pro *badu battle + goh berg mountain, hill.de Karn Georg Peter 2006 Kreis Bad Dürkheim 2 9783884622155 Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft 223 The surname derives from the town in Hesse.
Pronunciation
de /ˈbatn̩bɛʁk/
de Bat ten berg
Proper noun
surname
de place names Mountbatten Battenberg
Proper noun
toponym
de town district/Waldeck-Frankenberg s/Hesse c/Germany Battenberg
de town district/Bad Dürkheim s/Rhineland-Palatinate c/Germany Battenberg
Derived terms
de Battenberger
Descendants
en Battenberg
en Mountbatten 1
el Μπάττενμπεργκ
zh 巴滕貝格 Bāténgbèigé 1
References