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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Rothschild

Pronunciation / Transliteration: rɔtˈʃild

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Rothschild/ˈrɒθ.ʃaɪld/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #15400 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La dinastia Rothschild ha finanziato molti progetti storici."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A member of the Rothschild family, a wealthy international banking dynasty originating in Frankfurt.

    "The estate was once owned by a prominent Rothschild in the nineteenth century."
  2. 2

    Used allusively to denote a person of immense wealth or a financial tycoon.

    "He thinks he is a modern-day Rothschild with all his speculative investments."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the German compound name 'Rotes Schild', meaning 'red shield', referring to the house sign of the ancestral home in Frankfurt occupied by the family in the 16th century. Over time, it evolved from a proper surname into an international eponym frequently used in finance, history, and socio-economic discourse.

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