Ella
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Etymology edit
A 19th-century shortening of Eleanor or Ellen, later also used for any name ending in -ella, such as Gabriella or Daniella. Similar abbreviations have been formed independently in many European languages, for any name containing the syllable -el-, e.g. Elisabeth.
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Ella (countable and uncountable, plural Ellas)
- A female given name.
- 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XLII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
- She was named Ella Lorena, Ella for her grandmother Ellen, and Lorena because it was the most fashionable name of the day for girls […]
- Diminutive of Eleanor or Ellen
- Clipping of Gabriella or Daniella.
- A placename
- A town in Uva Province, Sri Lanka.
- An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Oregon, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Ella
- a female given name from English
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Ella
- a female given name, similar to English Ella
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Etymology edit
Shortening of Elisabeth. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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Ella f
- a female given name
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Ella f
- a female given name
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Matronymics
- son of Ella: Elluson
- daughter of Ella: Elludóttir
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Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Ella |
Accusative | Ellu |
Dative | Ellu |
Genitive | Ellu |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Originally a diminutive form of Elina, Elisabet, etc.
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Ella
- a female given name, similar to English Ella
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Inflection of Ella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Ella | Ellat | ||
genitive | Ellan | Ellojen | ||
partitive | Ellaa | Elloja | ||
illative | Ellaan | Elloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Ella | Ellat | ||
accusative | nom. | Ella | Ellat | |
gen. | Ellan | |||
genitive | Ellan | Ellojen Ellainrare | ||
partitive | Ellaa | Elloja | ||
inessive | Ellassa | Elloissa | ||
elative | Ellasta | Elloista | ||
illative | Ellaan | Elloihin | ||
adessive | Ellalla | Elloilla | ||
ablative | Ellalta | Elloilta | ||
allative | Ellalle | Elloille | ||
essive | Ellana | Elloina | ||
translative | Ellaksi | Elloiksi | ||
abessive | Ellatta | Elloitta | ||
instructive | — | Elloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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- Ella is the 58th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 11,820 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,954 more), and also belongs to 6 male individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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Ella
- a female given name, equivalent to English Ella
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Ella f
- (formal, polite) Alternative letter-case form of ella (“you”)
- Synonym: Lei
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- Highly elevated variant of Lei.
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Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
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Singular | third | m | esso1, egli, elli3 | si, s' | lo, l' | gli | vi, v' | ne, n' | esso, sé |
f | essa, ella, Ella2 | la, l' | le, ella3 | essa, sé | |||||
Plural | third | m | essi, eglino3, ellino3, elli3 | si, s' | li | loro | vi, v' | ne, n' | essi, sé |
f | esse, elle3, elleno3 | le | esse, elle,3 sé | ||||||
1 | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | ||||||||
2 | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | ||||||||
3 | Archaic. |
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Ella
- a female given name, similar to English Ella
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Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Ella m
- a male given name
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Note that even though Ella is a feminine ōn-stem proper noun, its natural gender is masculine.
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Ella n (plural Ellren)
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Ella c (genitive Ellas)
- a female given name, similar to English Ella. Contraction of Edla.