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Definition: FITZ |
FITZNoun1. A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence. |
"FITZ" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a son of the king". |
Date "FITZ" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Fitz \Fitz\, noun. [Old French expression fils, filz, fiz, son, French fils, from Latin expression filius. See Filial.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Fitz (Norman). Son of; as Fitz-Herbert, Fitz-William, Fitz-Peter, etc. It is sometimes applied to illegitimate children, as Fitz-Clarence, Fitz-roy, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: FITZ |
| Specialty definitions using "FITZ": London Stone. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FITZ": filial. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Oblong Fitz Oblong der kleine dicke Ritter (1963) Brigadier-General Fitz Hugh Lee (1898) The Fitz (2000) Fitz and Bones (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Figure 11. Lightning sounder, designed in 1866 by Lieutenant Charles C. P. Fitz gerald, RN. This model was used on the LIGHTNING during the Faroe Islands expedition of 1868. It was used for systematic sounding operations in depths up to 1189 meters and according to Charles Wyville Thomson, a mission participant, it never failed despite its primitive and unlikely appearance.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Seated on bench, with golf clubs, left to right: Byron Nelson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ben Hogan, and Clifford Roberts] / p.Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Morgan Fitz, Augusta, Ga.. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of his holy Church and for the rectifying of our realm, we have granted as underwritten by advice of our venerable fathers, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry, archbishop of Dublin, William of London, Peter of Winchester, Jocelyn of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, William of Coventry, Benedict of Rochester, bishops; of Master Pandulf, subdeacon and member of the household of our lord the Pope, of brother Aymeric (master of the Knights of the Temple in England), and of the illustrious men William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William, earl of Salisbury, William, earl of Warenne, William, earl of Arundel, Alan of Galloway (constable of Scotland), Waren Fitz Gerold, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert De Burgh (seneschal of Poitou), Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip d'Aubigny, Robert of Roppesley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and others, our liegemen. (reference) |
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| "FITZ" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FITZ" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "FITZ" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fitz | Last name | 2,000 | 6,818 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "FITZ" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a son of the king". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "FITZ." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Fitz | Male | English | Fitzroy |
| Fitzroy | Male | English | N/A |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FITZ": Fitz-gibbon, Fitz-ralph. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fitz floyd | 266 | fitz floyd cookie jar | 5 |
fitz | 67 | fitz floyd.com | 5 |
emerson fitz | 36 | fitz and floyd dinnerware | 4 |
fitz program radio | 23 | big daddy fitz | 4 |
fitz radio | 19 | fitz and floyd inc | 4 |
auto fitz part | 19 | fernando fitz vanderpool vargas vs | 4 |
fitz disease | 16 | emerson erotic fitz story | 4 |
fitz vanderpool | 16 | beer fitz root | 4 |
auto fitz | 13 | chris fitz | 4 |
brent fitz | 12 | auto fitz mall | 4 |
fitz video | 10 | fitz floyd outlet | 4 |
fitz tv | 9 | fitz floyd retired | 4 |
fitz roy | 8 | fitz ludwig | 4 |
fitz auto wrecking | 8 | fitz fresh | 4 |
fitz hugh lane | 7 | jac fitz enz | 4 |
fitz hugh curtis syndrome | 7 | edmund fitz | 4 |
fitz floyd oceana | 7 | fitz floyd tuscany | 3 |
fitz and floyd collectible | 7 | charming fitz floyd tails | 3 |
fitz floyd china | 7 | catalog fitz floyd | 3 |
bradshaw fitz racing | 5 | fitz morning show | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "FITZ"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Fitz-Hugh's syndrom (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wet van Fitz (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome), syndroom van Fitz (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | syndrome de Fitz-Hugh (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Fitz-Hugh-Curtis-Syndrom (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome), Stajano-Syndrom (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύνδρομο των Fitz-Hugh (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | sindrome di Fitz (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome), legge di Fitz (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itzfay síndrome de Fitz-Hugh (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). (various references) síndrome de Fitz-Hugh-Curtis (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | filius. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-t-z" | |
-1 letter: fit, fiz, zit. | |
-2 letters: if, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-t-z" | |
+1 letter: fritz. | |
+2 letters: zaftig, zoftig. | |
+3 letters: foziest, fritzes, futzing. | |
+4 letters: fizziest, frizette, furziest, fuzziest. | |
+5 letters: factorize, fantasize, fertilize, frizettes, frizziest, frouziest, frowziest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 54 5A |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. - --.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01010100 01011010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I T Z |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 0054 005A |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40435460 |
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