Eliza
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English
Etymology
Shortened from Elizabeth.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eliza
- A female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century.
- 1993, Ruth Rendell, The Crocodile Bird, page 76:
- "My real name's !Eliza!. I've sometimes thought she called me after Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion." "Come again?" said Sean. "Because she intended to do the same thing with me as Pygmalion did with Galatea and as Professor Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle, he remade her to be the way he wanted her, or let's say he had an ideal and he tried to turn her into that." - - - "She said she didn't, anyway, when I asked her. She just liked the name."
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Elise, originally diminutive of Elisabeth.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eliza f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Eliza
Declension
Declension of Eliza
Further reading
- Eliza in Polish dictionaries at PWN