Selena

See also: selēna and selēnā

English

Etymology

Either a variant of Selina, from Latin Caelīna (“heavenly”, from caelum (“sky, heaven”)), or from Selene, the Ancient Greek goddess of the moon.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈliːnə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈlinə/

Proper noun

Selena

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1893, William Wallace, After the Revolution: And Other Holiday Fantasies, W. Hodge, →ISBN, page 163:

     I promised Selena — her full name I ascertained in due course was Selena Judith Hephzibah — that I would. I would have promised her anything.

   • 2004, D. L. Lepidus, The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2003, Smith and Kraus, →ISBN, page 27:

     I have a younger sister, Jessica, who insists that everyone call her Selena because she feels the pain of the murdered Latin American rock star, and who just dropped out of school for the second time.

Derived terms

• Selenator

Translations

female given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 莎麗娜／莎丽娜 (Shālìnà), 塞萊娜／塞莱娜 (Sāiláinà)

• Czech: Selena f
• Danish: Celina c
• French: Sélène (fr) f, Séléna (fr) f, Céline (fr) f
• German: Selina f, Celina (de) f, Celine (de) f
• Hindi: सेलेना f (selenā)
• Italian: Selena f, Celina (it) f
• Japanese: セレーナ (Serēna)
• Korean: 셀레나 (Sellena)
• Norwegian: Celine (no) f, Celina (no) f
• Polish: Celina (pl) f, Selena (pl) f
• Portuguese: Selena f
• Russian: Селе́на (ru) f (Seléna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сѐле̄на f

  Roman: Sèlēna (sh) f

• Slovene: Selena (sl) f
• Spanish: Selena f, Celina (es) f

Anagrams

• enseal, Lanese, selane, aneles, Lesane, Elenas, Eleans, Anslee

Faroese

Proper noun

Selena f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Selena: Selenuson
• daughter of Selena: Selenudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Selena
Accusative	Selenu
Dative	Selenu
Genitive	Selenu

Italian

Etymology

From Selene, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).

Proper noun

Selena f (masculine Seleno)

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

Related terms

• Selene
• Selenia
• Selenio

Anagrams

• Lanese, lesena

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈlẽ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈlẽ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈle.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈle.nɐ/

Proper noun

Selena f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Selena

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěleːna/
• Hyphenation: Se‧le‧na

Proper noun

Sèlēna f (Cyrillic spelling Сѐле̄на)

1. Selene (Greek goddess)
2. a female given name; Selena, Selene

Declension

Declension of Selena

	singular
nominative	Sèlēna
genitive	Sèlēnē
dative	Sèlēni
accusative	Sèlēnu
vocative	Sèlēno
locative	Sèlēni
instrumental	Sèlēnōm

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈlena/ [seˈle.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: Se‧le‧na

Proper noun

Selena f

1. a female given name

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Selena.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /seˈlina/ [sɛˈliː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Se‧le‧na

Proper noun

Selena (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒᜈ)

1. a female given name from English