Rowena

English

Etymology

From the name of the daughter of Hengist and wife of Vortigern in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century pseudohistorical Latin work Historia regum Britanniae. There have been attempts to connect it to some unattested Old English or Common Brittonic name, but without any real evidence. It was revived after Walter Scott used it in his novel Ivanhoe (1819).

Proper noun

Rowena

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
2. An unincorporated community in Kentucky
3. A community of New Brunswick, Canada
4. A town in New South Wales, Australia
5. A census-designated place in Oregon
6. An unincorporated community in South Dakota
7. An unincorporated community in Texas

Anagrams

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English Rowena, from Old Saxon, possibly from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiwunjō.

Proper noun

Rowena

1. a female given name from the Germanic languages

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Rowena.