Isabella
WordNet
noun
(1) The queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504)
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- , a Latinate and Italian form of Isabel (=Elizabeth), currently fashionable in the English-speaking world.
Quotations
: 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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Proper noun
- popular in the 2000s.
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Proper noun
- popular in the 2000s.
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Proper noun
- , equivalent to Spanish and English Isabel.
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