Zdeněk is a
Czech given name derived from the
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...
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
Zdenko is a male given name of Slovak, Slovene or Croatian origin. It is the Slavic version of the name Sidonius (meaning ''of Sidon''). Other explanation are given as coming from the slavic term '' zidati'', meaning to build or to create or '' z ...
. 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 paint ...
.
In
Slovenian, it means