Etymology

battenberg

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Today it means: A surname from German, anglicized in 1917 as Mountbatten. Full definition →

German Battenberg
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  1. German · borrowed fromBattenberg
  2. English todayBattenberg

From German Battenberg. The surname derives from the town in Hesse.

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