English Explanatory Dictionary

Startz

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Startz

Etymology

* As a south German surname, variant of Stertz and German Starz. * As an Americanization of a Germanized Slavic name, from Upper Sorbian starc, Lower Sorbian starc, or Slovene stȃrəc (dialectal stȃrc), all meaning "old man"; ultimately from Proto-Slavic *starьcь (“old man”) * As a dialectal Bavarian surname, from Starz (“tail”) (see Steiß (“tail, coccyx”)) Compare Starck.

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