Hohenstaufen

Etymology
Borrowed from, from +  (from , from , related to ), first used to distinguish a hill called Staufer in the  from the village of the same name in the valley below. (See ).

Proper noun

 * 1)  A mediaeval (11th—14th centuries) German dynasty of Swabian origin, from which came numerous monarchs, including dukes of  and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.

Usage notes
Members of the family did not refer to themselves as Hohenstaufen, instead occasionally using variations of the toponymic surname. It was not until the 13th century that the name came to be applied to the family as a whole.

Translations

 * German: Hohenstaufen,
 * Italian: Hohenstaufen, Svevi
 * Marathi: होएनश्टाउफन
 * Sicilian: Hohenstaufen