Zdeněk is a
Czech given name derived from the
Latin
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name
Sidonius. contested the relation with the Latin name, and an alternative etymology is a diminutive of
Zdeslav.
[Jan Svoboda, Staročeská osobní jména se základem sd , sdě-, :Onomastica nr 7, r. IV, z. 2, Wrocław 1958]
The South Slavic counterpart is
Zdenko. The feminine counterpart is
Zdenka Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of Zdeslava. Notable people with the name include:
* Zdenka Badovinac, Slovenian art critic
* Zdenka Braunerová, Czech pai ...
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In
Slovenian
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* Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe
* Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia
* Slovenes, an ethno-linguistic group mainly living in Slovenia
* Sl ...
, it means