Rupert

Meanings

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
2. A city, the county seat of Minidoka County, Idaho.
3. An unincorporated community in Ohio.
4. A town in Vermont.
5. A town in West Virginia.

1. A junior army officer.

1. Having or relating to the property of being able to pass through a copy of itself.

Etymology

A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert. The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size.