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adolphus
Adolphus (name) means a given name for males, derived from the Germanic languages as a Latinized variant of Adolph.
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A given name for males, derived from the Germanic languages as a Latinized variant of Adolph.
"Would any man named Adolphus - any man called Dolly! - object to being called something else?"
— George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara: Act III (1906)
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Etymology
Taken from Latin Adolphus, and a doublet of Adolph.
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"adolphus" (name) means a given name for males, derived from the Germanic languages as a Latinized variant of Adolph.