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, Great Expectations […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

     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.

Anagrams

• lealest, stellae

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /esˈteʝa/ [esˈt̪e.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /esˈteʝa/ [esˈt̪e.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /esˈteʎa/ [esˈt̪e.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /esˈteʃa/ [esˈt̪e.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /esˈteʒa/ [esˈt̪e.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -eʝa

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝa
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎa
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃa
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒa

• Syllabification: Es‧te‧lla

Proper noun

Estella ?

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

   Synonym: Estella-Lizarra