Schweizer

Borrowed from German Schweizer. Doublet of Switzer.

Schweizer (plural Schweizer)

1. A surname from German.

• Schweitzer (archaic)

Inherited from Middle High German swīzer. Equivalent to Schweiz +‎ -er. The senses "doorman" and "milker" arose because Swiss people were commonly employed in Germany in those professions; the sense "sacristan" arose because sacristans' garb resembled that of the Swiss Guards. For the sense development compare also French Suisse (“Swiss”): suisse (“doorman”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯t͡sɐ
• Hyphenation: Schwei‧zer

Schweizer m (strong, genitive Schweizers, plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizerin) (feminine form: Swiss (female) or melker (female))

1. Swiss person, Swiss (male)

   Synonym: Eidgenosse

   Hypernym: Mitteleuropäer

2. Swiss Guard

   Holonym: Schweizergarde

3. (Catholicism) sacristan

   Synonym: Küster

4. milker (a person or man who milks cows)
5. doorman

• Mitteleuropäer

• Schweizerin
• schweizerisch

• → Polish: szwajcar, Szwajcar
  • Ukrainian: швайца́р (švajcár) (obsolete)
• → Romanian: șvaițer
• → Russian: швейца́р (švejcár, “doorman, Swiss man (dated)”), швейца́ръ (švejcár) — Pre-reform orthography (1918) (possibly via Polish)
  • → Armenian: շվեյցար (šveycʻar)
  • Bashkir: швейцар (şveytsar)
  • Belarusian: швейцар (švjejcar)
  • Chuvash: швейцар (švejtsar)
  • Estonian: šveitser
  • Georgian: შვეიცარი (šveicari)
  • Kazakh: швейцар (şveisar)
  • Kyrgyz: швейцар (şveytsar)
  • Latvian: šveicars
  • Ossetian: швейца́р (švejcár)
  • Tatar: швейцар (şweytsar)
• → Russian: швейца́рец (švejcárec, “Swiss man”)
• → Ukrainian: швейца́р (švejcár)

Schweizer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Schweizers or (with an article) Schweizer, feminine genitive Schweizer, plural Schweizers or Schweizer)

1. a surname

• → English: Schweizer
• → Portuguese: Schweizer

Schweizer (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Switzerland

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

• Schweizerheit

• “Schweizer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Schweizer” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Schweizer” in Duden online
• Schweizer on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Schweiz (“Switzerland”) +‎ -er.^[1]

Compare German Schweizer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯tsa
• Syllabification: Schwei‧zer

Schweizer m (plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizrin)

1. Swiss (a person from Switzerland)

Unadapted borrowing from German Schweizer.

Schweizer m or f by sense

1. a surname from German