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Stella is a female given name. It is derived from the Latin word for star. [1] [2] It has been in use in English-speaking countries since it was first used by Philip Sidney in Astrophel and Stella, his 1580s sonnet sequence.
Stella. boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images. Quite a popular name but beautiful nonetheless. This name derives from Italian and Latin origins, and translates to ‘star.’ ... Estella is a pretty ...
In most manuscripts of Jerome's work, one of the interpretations offered is as "stella maris", star of the sea. But this was probably originally stilla maris, meaning "drop of the sea" (as written in one manuscript), based on מר mar, a rare biblical word for "drop", [a] and ים yam "sea". [4]
Stella is a surname meaning star in Latin and Italian. Notable persons with the surname include: Artists. Fermo Stella (1490s–1560s), Italian painter;
This star-crossed lover’s name has English origins, and a meaning ‘youthful’ or ‘Jove’s child’. For those asking, Jove is the older variation of the Roman God Jupiter. 95.
Probably composed in the 1580s, Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella is an English sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. The name derives from the two Greek words, 'aster' (star) and 'phil' (lover), and the Latin word 'stella' meaning star. Thus Astrophil is the star lover, and Stella is his star.
The Stella d'Italia ("Star of Italy"), popularly known as Stellone d'Italia ("Great Star of Italy"), [1] is a five-pointed white star, which has symbolized Italy for many centuries. It is the oldest national symbol of Italy , since it dates back to Graeco-Roman mythology [ 2 ] when Venus , associated with the West as an evening star, was ...
Estelle is a female given name of Occitan origin, and means star. [1]Saint Estelle was a martyr who purportedly lived in Aquitania in the third century AD, although the earliest references to her date from the Middle Ages.