Ethel

See also: ethel and eþel

English

Alternative forms

• Ethyl

Etymology

Short form of names of Old English [Term?] origin beginning with Ethel-, æþele (“noble”). First used in the 19th century. Cognate to the Germanic Adela and Adele.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛθɪl/

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• Homophone: ethyl (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -ɛθɪl

Proper noun

Ethel

1. A female given name from Old English, popular at the turn of the 20th century.
   • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Bradbury and Evans, page 95:

     If it is so false, and base, and hollow, this great world […] why does Ethel Newcome cling to it? Will you be fairer, dear, with any other name than your own?

   • 1979, Mary McMullen, But Nellie Was So Nice, Doubleday, page 23:

     Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel.
     Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Arkansas County, Arkansas.
   2. An unincorporated community in Greenfield Township, Orange County, Indiana.
   3. An unincorporated community in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
   4. A town in Attala County, Mississippi.
   5. A town in Macon County, Missouri.
   6. An unincorporated community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.
   7. An unincorporated community in Richmond County, Virginia.
   8. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington.
   9. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
3. A hamlet in Huron County, Ontario, Canada.

Related terms

• pet form: Eth

Translations

female given name

• Danish: Edel
• Hawaiian: ʻEkela
• Japanese: エセル (eseru)
• Marathi: एथेल f (ethel)
• Norwegian: Edel (no)
• Swedish: Edla (sv)

Anagrams

• Leeth, Lethe, Theel, lethe

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Ethel, from Old English.

Noun

Ethel

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Old English]

Tagalog

Etymology

From English Ethel, from Old English.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔetel/ [ˈʔɛː.t̪ɛl]
• Rhymes: -etel
• Syllabification: E‧thel

Noun

Ethel (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜆᜒᜎ᜔)

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Old English]