Estella

See also: estellä

English

Etymology

Latinized and Italian variant of the French Estelle.

Proper noun

Estella

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VIII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 124:

     To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order. But she answered at last, and her light came along the dark passage like a star.

2. A suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

Anagrams

• lealest, stellae

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /esˈteʝa/ [esˈt̪e.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /esˈteʝa/ [esˈt̪e.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /esˈteʎa/ [esˈt̪e.ʎa] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /esˈteʃa/ [esˈt̪e.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /esˈteʒa/ [esˈt̪e.ʒa] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /esˈtea/ [esˈt̪e.a] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -eʝa

• Rhymes: -eʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -eʎa (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒa (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -ea (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Syllabification: Es‧te‧lla

Proper noun

Estella ?

1. Estella-Lizarra (a town and municipality of Navarre, Spain)

   Synonym: Estella-Lizarra