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Reynard

//ˈɹɛnə(ɹ)d// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name.
  2. 2
    A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. 3
    A name in European folklore for the red fox. literary, poetic

    "Reynard, in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared."

  4. 4
    A locality in the Shire of Wellington and the Shire of Mansfield, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A fox. dialectal
  2. 2
    a conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic ‘Reynard the Fox’ wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French Renart (Modern renard (“fox”)), influenced by Middle Dutch Reynaerd, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“decision, advice, counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, Old High German Reginhart (“strong in counsel”).

Etymology 2

From French renard.

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