English
Viola
Viola comes from Latin viola ‘violet’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEviola‘violet’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1601–1602Viola
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEviola‘violet’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1601–1602Viola
Earliest quotation: c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfe Night, or What You Will: “Were you a woman as the rest goes even,…”
Linked words
through Latin viola ‘violet’
Today it means
name A female given name from Latin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin viola / Viola