Stephen vs Eric - What's the difference?
stephen | eric |
The first Christian martyr.
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* 1852 (William Harrison Ainsworth), Tale of a Carpet-Bag , Ainsworth's Magazine, Vol. 21, page 17:
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
* 2000 (Helen DeWitt), The Last Samurai , Miramax Books(2002), ISBN 0786887001, page 142:
A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
* 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess , Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
As proper nouns the difference between stephen and eric
is that stephen is the first Christian martyr while Eric is a given name derived from Germanic.As a noun eric is
a fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.stephen
English
Alternative forms
* as a given name: StevenProper noun
(en proper noun)- And Stephen , full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
- I, for my part, ask any candid reader if it was not bad enough to be called Broadfoot, without having it aggravated into Stephen Broadfoot? I feel confident I will here get a tear of sympathy from all unhappy Andrews and Peters, and Aarons and Samuels, with a smile of disdainful compassion from thrice-happy Franks and Charleys and Bills.
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'', a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'' , ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
- I thought that ideally it should be a name which could work whether he was serious and reserved or butch, a name like Stephen which could be Steve or David which could be Dave.
Derived terms
* Stephenvilleeric
English
Noun
(en noun)- The court-poets of Wales [...] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.