reynard

/ˈɹɛnə(ɹ)d/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Renard, from Old French Renart (Modern renard (“fox”)), influenced by Middle Dutch Reynaerd, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“decision, advice, counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, Old High German Reginhart (“strong in counsel”).

name

A male given name.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A name in European folklore for the red fox.“Reynard, in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.”
A locality in the Shire of Wellington and the Shire of Mansfield, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

noun

A fox.