Etymograph

English

Ada

Ada comes from Germanic; the Germanic form is not named.

  1. Germanicmodernform not named
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1818Ada

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Germanicmodernform not named
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1818Ada

Earliest quotation: 1818, George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: “Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child!…”

The story

Short form of Germanic names beginning with adal (‘noble’), such as Adelaide. Also Latinized form of Hebrew Adah. The programming language takes its name from Ada Lovelace.

Today it means

name A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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