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Reynard¹

  • /ˈɹɛnə(ɹ)d/
  • /ˈɹɛnɑː(ɹ)d/

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English Renard, from Old French Renart (Modern renard (“fox”)), influenced by Middle Dutch Reynaerd, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“decision, advice, counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, Old High German Reginhart (“strong in counsel”).

proper noun

  1. A male given name.
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. literary, poetic A name in European folklore for the red fox. Reynard, in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.
  4. A locality in the Shire of Wellington and the Shire of Mansfield, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

reynard²

Where it comes from

From French renard.

noun reynards

  1. dialectal A fox.

Translations

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name name in European folklore for the red fox

日本語ルナール Runāru
FrançaisRenart
DeutschReineke, Reineke Fuchs
ItalianoRenart
РусскийРена́р Renár

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@misc{reynard_2026,
  title = {reynard},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/reynard},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}