English
Marina
Marina comes from Latin Marīna.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMarīna
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1607–1608Marina
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMarīna
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1607–1608Marina
Earliest quotation: c. 1607–1608, William Shakespeare, The Late: “My gentle babe Marina - whom, / for she…”
The story
Name of an early virgin martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church, Latin Marīna, probably a feminine form of Marīnus, from marīnus (‘of the sea’), or a variant of Marīa.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘sea, lake, wetland’
remember, murder, mortality, mortal, nightmare, mortar, muller, morbid, mort, morn, mara, ambrosia, moribund, cormorant, marshy, 63 more
through Proto-Indo-European *móri ‘sea’
march, mere, moor, marsh, 18 more
through Latin mare ‘sea’
maritime, mare, maar, aquamarine, martingale, 13 more
through Latin marīnus ‘of the sea’
Today it means
name A female given name from Latin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Marīna / Marina