Lorena
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian and Spanish, by folk etymology associated with Laura. Henry Webster's title for his song was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore.
Proper noun edit
Lorena
- A female given name from Italian.
- 1856 Henry Webster - Joseph Webster, Lorena (song):
- We loved each other then, Lorena,
- More than we ever dared to tell;
- And what we might have been, Lorena,
- Had but our lovings prospered well --
- 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,
- 1856 Henry Webster - Joseph Webster, Lorena (song):
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Proper noun edit
Lorena f
- Lorraine (a former administrative region and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est)
Holonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
La Lorena
- Lorraine (a former administrative region and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est)
Proper noun edit
Lorena f
- a female given name
References edit
- ^ Lorena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: Lo‧re‧na
Proper noun edit
Lorena f
- Lorraine (a former administrative region and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est)
- a female given name
- A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Lorena f
- Lorraine (a former administrative region and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est)
- a female given name transferred from the place name, equivalent to English Lorraine