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Estella
Estella comes from Occitan estela ‘star’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂stḗr‘star’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*stērlā‘star’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstēlla‘star’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEstēla
- Occitanc. 1500–presentestela‘star’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentEstelle
- Englishearliest quotation 1860Estella
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂stḗr‘star’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*stērlā‘star’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstēlla‘star’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEstēla
- Occitanc. 1500–presentestela‘star’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentEstelle
- Englishearliest quotation 1860Estella
Earliest quotation: 1860, – 1861 August, Charles Dickens: “To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage…”
The story
Latinized and Italian variant of the French Estelle.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr ‘star’
star, disaster, sterling, asteroid, astral, asterisk, aster, 23 more
through Latin stēlla ‘star’
Today it means
name A female given name from Latin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr / Estella