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'''Roderick''', '''Rodrick''' or '''Roderic''' ([[Proto-Germanic]] ''{{lang|gem-x-proto|*[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/Hrōþirīks|Hrōþirīks]]''}}, from ''{{lang|gem-x-proto|*[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hrōþiz|hrōþiz]]''}}, "{{lit|fame, glory"}} + ''{{lang|gem-x-proto|*[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rīks|ríks]]''}}, "{{gloss|king, ruler"}}) is a [[Germanic name]], recorded from the 8th century onward.<ref>Förstemann, ''Altdeutsches Namenbuch'' (1856), [https://archive.org/stream/altdeutschesnam00frgoog#page/n392/mode/2up 740].</ref> Its [[Old High German]] forms are ''{{lang|goh|Hrodric}}, {{lang|goh|Chrodericus}}, {{lang|goh|Hroderich}}, {{lang|goh|Roderich}}, {{lang|goh|Ruodrich''}}, ({{abbr|etc.)|et cetera}}; in [[Gothic language]] ''{{lang|got|Hrōþireiks''}}; in [[Old English language]] it appears as ''{{lang|ang|Hrēðrīc''}} or ''{{lang|ang|Hroðrīc''}}, and in [[Old Norse]] as ''{{lang|non|Hrǿríkʀ''}} ([[Old East Norse]] ''{{lang|non|Hrø̄rīkʀ''}}, ''{{lang|non|Rø̄rīkʀ''}}, [[Old West Norse]] as ''{{lang|non|Hrœrekr}}, {{lang|non|Rœrekr''}}).
In the 12th-century ''[[Primary chronicle]]'', the name is reflected as {{lang|cu|Рюрикъ}}, i.e. ''[[Rurik]]''. In [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], it was rendered as ''[[Rodrigo]]'', or in its short form, ''Ruy or Rui'', and in [[Galician language|Galician]], the name is ''Roy'' or ''Roi''. In [[Arabic]], the form ''Ludhriq''{{translit|ar|Ludharīq}} (لذريق{{lang|ar|لُذَرِيق}}), used to refer [[Roderic]] ([[Ulfilas|Ulfilan]] Gothic ''{{lang-got|*Hroþareiks''}}), the last king of the Visigoths. [[Saint Roderick]] (d. {{died-in|857}}) is one of the [[Martyrs of Córdoba]].
The modern English name does not continue the Anglo-Saxon form but was re-introduced from the continent by the [[NormanNormans]] in [[England in the High Middle Ages|Normansmedieval England]]. The [[Middle English]] given name had also virtually disappeared by the 19th century, even though it had survived as a surname. The given name was re-popularised by [[Sir Walter Scott]]'s poem ''[[The Vision of Don Roderick]]'' (1811), where ''Roderick'' refers to the [[Roderic|Visigothic king]]. The modern English name is sometimes abbreviated to [[Roddy]].
''Roderick'' is also an [[Anglicisation]] of several unrelated names. As a surname and given name it is used as an anglicised form of the [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''{{lang|cy|[[Rhydderch (disambiguation)|Rhydderch]]''}}. The given name ''Roderick'' is also used as an anglicised form of the [[Gaelic languages|Gaelic]] personal name [[Rory]] ({{lang-ga|''Ruaidhrí''/''}}, {{lang|ga|Ruairí''/''}}; {{lang-gd|Ruairidh''/''}}, {{lang|gd|Ruaraidh'']]}}).
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