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Huguenot

(hyo̵̅o̅′gə nät′)

noun

any French Protestant of the 16th or 17th cent.

Origin: MFr, orig., supporter of group in Geneva opposing annexation to Savoy: altered (after Hugues Besançon, leader of the group) < earlier eidgnot < Ger eidgenosse, a confederate, ally: name later applied to Protestants in reference to the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva

See Huguenot in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A French Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from Old French huguenot, member of a Swiss political movement

Origin: , alteration (influenced by Bezanson Hugues (c. 1491-1532?), Swiss political leader)

Origin: of dialectal eyguenot

Origin: , from German dialectal Eidgenosse, confederate

Origin: , from Middle High German eitgenōz

Origin: : eit, oath (from Old High German eid)

Origin: + genōz, companion (from Old High German ginōz)