Andrea

See also: andrea

English

Pronunciation

• (female given name): ănʹdrē-ə, IPA^(key): /ˈændɹi.ə/

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• (male given name): ăn-drāʹə, IPA^(key): /ænˈdɹeɪə/

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Etymology 1

Latinate feminine form of Andreas and Andrew.

Proper noun

Andrea

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 2003, Jack Weyland, Everyone Gets Married in the End, Cedar Fort,, →ISBN, page 157:

     There's not much you can do with a name like Andrea. "Call me And." I don't think so. "Call me Andy." You say that and people will start calling you Handy Andy, and before you know it, you'll be getting phones calls from people wanting you to come and get their drain unstopped. So I've been forced to have people call me Andrea, which sounds like a girl who takes ballet and is learning to play the cello.

Usage notes

• Recorded since the Middle Ages, but first popular in the latter half of the 20th century.

Translations

female given name

• Czech: Andrea (cs)
• Esperanto: Andrea (eo)
• Estonian: Andra
• Faroese: Andrea f
• French: Andrée (fr)
• Galician: Andrea (gl) f
• Greek: Ανδρεία (el) f (Andreía)
• Hawaiian: ʻAnakalia
• Hungarian: Andrea (hu)
• Italian: Andreina f
• Latvian: Anda f
• Portuguese: Andreia (pt) f
• Slovak: Andrea f
• Spanish: Andrea (es) f

Etymology 2

From Italian Andrea.

Proper noun

Andrea

1. (rare) A male given name from Italian.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈandrɛa]

Proper noun

Andrea f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Andrea

Declension

Declension of Andrea (feminine in -ea)

	singular	plural
nominative	Andrea	Andrey, Andreje
genitive	Andrey, Andreje, Andreji	Andrejí
dative	Andree, Andreje, Andreji	Andreám, Andrejím
accusative	Andreu	Andrey, Andreje
vocative	Andreo	Andrey, Andreje
locative	Andree, Andreje, Andreji	Andreách, Andrejích
instrumental	Andreou	Andreami, Andrejemi

Proper noun

Andrea m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Andreas or Andrew

Declension

Declension of Andrea (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Andrea	Andreové
genitive	Andrey	Andreů
dative	Andreovi	Andreům
accusative	Andreu	Andrey
vocative	Andreo	Andreové
locative	Andreovi	Andreech
instrumental	Andreou	Andrey

Danish

Proper noun

Andrea

1. a female given name, feminine form of Andreas

Emilian

Proper noun

Andrea m

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew

Faroese

Proper noun

Andrea

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Andrea: Andreuson
• daughter of Andrea: Andreudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Andrea
Accusative	Andreu
Dative	Andreu
Genitive	Andreu

French

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Andrea

1. a female given name

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈdʁeːa/

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• Hyphenation: An‧d‧rea

Proper noun

Andrea f or m (proper noun, strong, genitive Andreas, plural Andreas)

1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Andreas
2. (less common) a male given name

Usage notes

• The genitive Andrea can be used after the article der (feminine genitive singular).
• The genitive Andrea's is permitted by the spelling reform of 1996.

Declension

Declension of Andrea [feminine // masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine, ein	die, der	Andrea	die	Andreas
genitive	einer, eines	der, des	Andreas	der	Andreas
dative	einer, einem	der, dem	Andrea	den	Andreas
accusative	eine, einen	die, den	Andrea	die	Andreas

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒndrɛɒ]
• Hyphenation: And‧rea
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Proper noun

Andrea

1. a female given name, feminine form of András

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Andrea	Andreák
accusative	Andreát	Andreákat
dative	Andreának	Andreáknak
instrumental	Andreával	Andreákkal
causal-final	Andreáért	Andreákért
translative	Andreává	Andreákká
terminative	Andreáig	Andreákig
essive-formal	Andreaként	Andreákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Andreában	Andreákban
superessive	Andreán	Andreákon
adessive	Andreánál	Andreáknál
illative	Andreába	Andreákba
sublative	Andreára	Andreákra
allative	Andreához	Andreákhoz
elative	Andreából	Andreákból
delative	Andreáról	Andreákról
ablative	Andreától	Andreáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Andreáé	Andreáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Andreáéi	Andreákéi

Possessive forms of Andrea
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Andreám	Andreáim
2nd person sing.	Andreád	Andreáid
3rd person sing.	Andreája	Andreái
1st person plural	Andreánk	Andreáink
2nd person plural	Andreátok	Andreáitok
3rd person plural	Andreájuk	Andreáik

Derived terms

• Andi (diminutive)

Icelandic

Proper noun

Andrea f

1. a female given name

Declension

declension of Andrea

f-w1	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Andrea
accusative	Andreu
dative	Andreu
genitive	Andreu

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Andreās, from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas). Due to the loss of the final S, the female name Andrea translates as Andreina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈdrɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: An‧drè‧a

Proper noun

Andrea m

1. Andrew (Biblical figure)
2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew

Anagrams

• andare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /anˈdreː.aː/, [än̪ˈd̪reːäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈdre.a/, [än̪ˈd̪rɛːä]

Proper noun

Andrēā

1. ablative/vocative singular of Andrēās

Norwegian

Proper noun

Andrea

1. a female given name, feminine form of Andreas

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νδρείᾱ (andreíā), male name from Italian influence.

Proper noun

Andrea m or f by sense (Cyrillic spelling Андреа)

1. a female given name
2. a male given name

Usage notes

Male name is more common in Dalmatia and Istria, where there is stronger Italian influence.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈandrɛa/

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Andrea f (genitive singular Andrey, nominative plural Andrey)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Andrea

Declension

Declension of Andrea

	singular	plural
nominative	Andrea	Andrey
genitive	Andrey	Andreí
dative	Andrei	Andreám
accusative	Andreu	Andrey
locative	Andrei	Andreách
instrumental	Andreou	Andreami

Etymology 2

Derived from Italian Andrea.

Proper noun

Andrea m anim (genitive singular Andreu, nominative plural Andreovia, declension pattern of hrdina)

1. (rare) a male given name from Italian

Declension

Declension of Andrea

	singular	plural
nominative	Andrea	Andreovia
genitive	Andreu	Andreov
dative	Andreovi	Andreom
accusative	Andreu	Andreov
locative	Andreovi	Andreoch
instrumental	Andreom	Andreami

References

• “Andrea”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Andrés.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈdɾea/ [ãn̪ˈd̪ɾe.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: An‧dre‧a

Proper noun

Andrea f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Andrea

Anagrams

• andaré
• dañare
• dañaré
• nadare
• nadaré

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Andrea c (genitive Andreas)

1. a female given name, feminine form of Andreas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Andrea.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔandɾea/, [ˈʔan.dɾɛ.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -andɾea
• Syllabification: An‧dre‧a

Proper noun

Ándreá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜇ᜔ᜇᜒᜌ)

1. a female given name from English

Related terms

• Andeng