Etymograph

English

Port Isabel

Port Isabel comes from Spanish Isabel ‘Elizabeth’, and goes back to Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἘλισάβετ
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEElisabeth
  3. Old Occitanc. 950–1500Elisabel
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentIsabel‘Elizabeth’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2025Port Isabel

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἘλισάβετ
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEElisabeth
  3. Old Occitanc. 950–1500Elisabel
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentIsabel‘Elizabeth’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2025Port Isabel

Earliest quotation: 2025, Ramon Antonio Vargas, Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vege: “Gamboa, 52, initially was held at Texas’s Webb county…”

Formed from port + Isabel

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to fare, cross’

Proto-Indo-European *pértus ‘crossing’

Proto-Italic *portus ‘harbour’

Latin portus ‘harbour, port’

Old English port ‘a port, haven’

English port

Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ

Latin Elisabeth

Old Occitan Elisabel

Spanish Isabel

English Isabel

Every English word from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ

Today it means

name A city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States.

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

Etymograph / Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ / Port Isabel

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