Gertrude

From Old French, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”) + *þrūþiþō (“strength”) or *trut- (“maiden, dear”) ; name of a Belgian seventh century saint.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɝtɹud/

Gertrude

1. A female given name.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     : Act IV, Scene V:

     O Gertrude, Gertrude! / When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.

   • 1850 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 103-108

     "We two," she said, "will seek the groves / Where the lady Mary is, / With her five handmaidens, whose names / Are five sweet symphonies, / Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, / Margaret and Rosalys.

• Gertie, Trudi, Trudie, Trudy