Schmidt

See also: schmidt

English

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Schmidt

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schmidt (“smith”). Doublet of Smid and Smith.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃmɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Proper noun

Schmidt (plural Schmidts)

1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
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Derived terms

• Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test
• Schmidt-Cassegrain
• Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
• Schmidt corrector plate
• Schmidt telescope

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Schmidt is the 185^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 147,034 individuals. Schmidt is most common among White (95.2%) individuals.

Noun

Schmidt (plural Schmidts)

1. Ellipsis of Schmidt telescope.

Danish

Etymology

From German Schmidt, often as a Germanization of the Danish Smed.

Proper noun

Schmidt

1. a surname

References

• Danmarks Statistik: 15 849 persons with the surname Schmidt (compared to 863 named Smed) living in Denmark on January 1st, 2011. Accessed on 18 October 2011.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃmit/

Proper noun

Schmidt ?

1. a surname from German

German

Alternative forms

• Schmid, Schmidl, Schmidts, Schmied, Schmiedel, Schmieder, Schmitt, Schmitz

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃmɪt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Schmidt m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Schmidts or (with an article) Schmidt, plural Schmidts or Schmidt)

1. a common surname originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Smith

Declension

Declension of Schmidt [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Schmidt	(eine)	(die)	Schmidt	(die)	Schmidts
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Schmidts, Schmidt1	(einer)	(der)	Schmidt	(der)	Schmidts
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Schmidt	(einer)	(der)	Schmidt	(den)	Schmidts
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Schmidt	(eine)	(die)	Schmidt	(die)	Schmidts

¹With an article.

Related terms

• Altenschmidt
• Bachschmidt
• Baierschmidt
• Ballschmidt
• Bauenschmidt
• Bauernschmidt
• Bauerschmidt
• Baurenschmidt
• Baurschmidt
• Bayerschmidt
• Behrschmidt
• Beielschmidt
• Beilschmidt
• Beischmidt
• Beitelschmidt
• Bergschmidt
• Beringschmidt
• Beutelschmidt
• Beyelschmidt
• Beylschmidt
• Blauschmidt
• Blechschmidt
• Boberschmidt
• Bohlenschmidt
• Bökenschmidt
• Braunschmidt
• Bresselschmidt
• Brinkschmidt
• Brockschmidt
• Bruchschmidt
• Dauberschmidt
• Deperschmidt
• Depperschmidt
• Döppenschmidt
• Dorfschmidt
• Dörrschmidt
• Dörschmidt
• Drahtschmidt
• Drathschmidt
• Dratschmidt
• Dreckschmidt
• Drommelschmidt
• Dürrschmidt
• Dürschmidt
• Eckschmidt
• Eisenschmidt
• Engelschmidt
• Fahnenschmidt
• Federschmidt
• Feldschmidt
• Fliegenschmidt
• Freischmidt
• Goldschmidt
• Hammerschmidt
• Hellenschmidt
• Hufschmidt
• Kastenschmidt
• Kleinschmidt
• Kupferschmidt
• Messerschmidt
• Nagelschmidt
• Reinschmidt
• Schaarschmidt
• Schmidtschneider
• Silberschmidt
• Uldschmidt
• Waffenschmidt
• Waldschmidt

Noun

Schmidt m (strong, genitive Schmiedes or Schmidts or Schmidtes, plural Schmiede or Schmidte)

1. archaic form of Schmied (“smith”)

Usage notes

• The stem Schmidt generally occurred only in the uninflected form, while inflected forms were built from the stem Schmied- (also spelt Schmid-). However, forms with generalization of the uninflected stem are also attestable. In contemporary German, conversely, the inflected stem has been generalized. (Alternation is still preserved in Dutch smid, plural smeden.)

Derived terms

• wie Schmidts Katze

Hungarian

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

Schmidt

Wikipedia ^hu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃmitː] (phonetic respelling: Smitt)
• Hyphenation: Schmidt
• Rhymes: -itː

Proper noun

Schmidt

1. a surname

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Schmidt	Schmidtek
accusative	Schmidtet	Schmidteket
dative	Schmidtnek	Schmidteknek
instrumental	Schmidttel	Schmidtekkel
causal-final	Schmidtért	Schmidtekért
translative	Schmidtté	Schmidtekké
terminative	Schmidtig	Schmidtekig
essive-formal	Schmidtként	Schmidtekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Schmidtben	Schmidtekben
superessive	Schmidten	Schmidteken
adessive	Schmidtnél	Schmidteknél
illative	Schmidtbe	Schmidtekbe
sublative	Schmidtre	Schmidtekre
allative	Schmidthez	Schmidtekhez
elative	Schmidtből	Schmidtekből
delative	Schmidtről	Schmidtekről
ablative	Schmidttől	Schmidtektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	Schmidté	Schmidteké
non-attributive possessive – plural	Schmidtéi	Schmidtekéi

Possessive forms of Schmidt

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Schmidtem	Schmidtjeim
2nd person sing.	Schmidted	Schmidtjeid
3rd person sing.	Schmidtje	Schmidtjei
1st person plural	Schmidtünk	Schmidtjeink
2nd person plural	Schmidtetek	Schmidtjeitek
3rd person plural	Schmidtjük	Schmidtjeik

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Schmidt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂmit/
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: Schmidt
• Homophones: Szmid, Szmidt, Szmit

Proper noun

Schmidt m pers

1. a male surname from German

Declension

Declension of Schmidt

	singular	plural
nominative	Schmidt	Schmidtowie
genitive	Schmidta	Schmidtów
dative	Schmidtowi	Schmidtom
accusative	Schmidta	Schmidtów
instrumental	Schmidtem	Schmidtami
locative	Schmidcie	Schmidtach
vocative	Schmidcie	Schmidtowie

Proper noun

Schmidt f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname from German

Further reading

• Schmidt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “SCHMIDT”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022