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Saint Estelle is the patron saint of the Felibrige, a literary and cultural association founded by Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote their language. Star is the meaning generally assigned the name Estelle, although the format Eustalia suggests the name's true root is the Greek eustales: well-groomed. [2]
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.
The name can be derived from the Old Persian stāra (NPer. ستاره setāra, meaning "star") although some scholars identify Esther with the name of the Babylonian goddess of love Ishtar, given its association with the planet Venus (in its role as the Morning Star and the Evening star; see also the Star of Ishtar). [2]
View history; General ... Estella is the Latinized and Italian version of the French feminine given name Estelle, which means ... the birth name of Cruella De ...
Estelle Blofis, a character in Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan; Estelle Bright, a main character in the video game The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky; Estelle Costanza, on the television series Seinfeld; Estelle Leonard, a recurring character in the Friends television series; Estelle Green, in Diana Wynne Jones' fantasy novel Witch Week
The popular meaning for the name is sweet like honey but other sources state that the place name Estíbaliz is derived from the Latin words Aestivalis or aestivus meaning summertime. [6] [7] The name also has a history of use as a masculine name. It was an Old Danish form of the Old Norse name Æistr, meaning from Estonia, in use since the ...
The name may be a cognate with Hellas (Greek: Ἑλλάς), the Greek name for Greece, which is said to have originally been the name of the region around Dodona. [2] Another source indicates that Ella is a Norman version of the Germanic short name Alia, which was short for a variety of German names with the element ali-, meaning "other". [3]
Morris is of Anglo-Norman origin and is a relationship name derived from the Middle English and Old French personal name Moreis, or Maurice (from the Latin Mauritius 'Moorish, dark, swarthy'; from Maurus 'a Moor'). [2] [3] It was the name of the 3rd century Christian martyr Saint Maurice.