Gaudí

From a personal name cognate to Old French Gaudin, from gaut (“woods”), from Frankish *walþu (“woods, woodland”), or from a hypocoristic form of any one of several Germanic personal names beginning with the element *waldą (“force”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡəwˈði]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ɡawˈði]

Gaudí m or f by sense

1. a surname from patronymic
2. Antoni Gaudí, a Catalan architect who is known for the Sagrada Familia

• gaudinisme

• “Gaudí” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.