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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 chronicleChronicle]]'', 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 {{translit|ar|Ludharīq}} ({{lang|ar|لُذَرِيق‎}}), used to refer [[Roderic]] ([[Ulfilas|Ulfilan]] {{lang-got|*Hroþareiks}}), the last king of the Visigoths. [[Saint Roderick]] ({{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 [[Normans]] in [[England in the High Middle Ages|medieval 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]].