Isabella

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Proper noun 1.1.1 Quotations 2 Danish 2.1 Proper noun 3 German 3.1 Proper noun 4 Italian 4.1 Proper noun 5 Swedish 5.1 Proper noun

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Singular Isabella

Plural -

Isabella

1. A female given name , a Latinate and Italian form of Isabel (=Elizabeth), currently fashionable in the English-speaking world.

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• 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure: Act I, Scene V:

  Can you so stead me,

  As bring me to the sight of Isabella,

  A novice of this place, and the fair sister

  To her unhappy brother Claudio?

• 1999 Ahdaf Soueif: The Map of Love ISBN 0385720114 page 22:

  Pharaonic toes, Irving said, - - -. Toes to go with the name. It was her father who had explained to her her name. Isa Bella: Isis the Beautiful. "So you see," he'd said, that summer's day, in the woods back of the house in Connecticut, "you have the name of the first goddess, the mother of Diana, of all the goddesses, the mother of the world."

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Isabella

1. A female given name popular in the 2000s.

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Isabella

1. A female given name popular in the 2000s.

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Isabella (f)

1. A female given name, equivalent to Spanish and English Isabel.

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[edit] Swedish

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Isabella

1. A female given name popular in the 2000s.