Nietzsche

Borrowed from German Nietzsche.

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈniː.t͡ʃə/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈni.t͡ʃə/

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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.

   • 2008 November 24, Giles Fraser, “On the Genealogy of Morals, part 5: Breaking the cycle of conflict”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Girard critically examines Nietzsche's central contention that Christianity is a religion of sublimated vengeance or ressentiment and contents that although Nietzsche is half right about Christians he remains dangerously naive about violence itself.

• Zechstein

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːt͡ʃə/

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

1. a surname

Unadapted borrowing from German Nietzsche.

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

Nietzsche m pers (related adjective nietzscheański)

1. Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers)

• Nietzsche in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Nietzsche in PWN's encyclopedia