Ella
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ella"
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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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Translations
female given name
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
Proper noun
Ella
- a female given name from English
Danish
Proper noun
Ella
- a female given name, similar to English Ella
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Dutch
Etymology
Shortening of Elisabeth. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ella f
- a female given name
Faroese
Proper noun
Ella f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Ella: Elluson
- daughter of Ella: Elludóttir
Declension
| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | Ella |
| Accusative | Ellu |
| Dative | Ellu |
| Genitive | Ellu |
Finnish
Etymology
Originally a diminutive form of Elina, Elisabet, etc.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ella
- a female given name, similar to English Ella
Declension
| Inflection of Ella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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Statistics
- 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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German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Ella
- a female given name, equivalent to English Ella
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Italian
Pronunciation
Pronoun
Ella f
- (formal, polite) Alternative letter-case form of ella (“you”)
- Synonym: Lei
Usage notes
- Highly elevated variant of Lei.
See also
Italian personal pronouns (alternate)
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||||||||
Anagrams
Norwegian
Proper noun
Ella
- a female given name, similar to English Ella
Old Norse
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
Ella m
- a male given name
Inflection
Declension of Ella (weak ōn-stem, indefinite singular only)
Note that even though Ella is a feminine ōn-stem proper noun, its natural gender is masculine.
Plautdietsch
Noun
Ella n (plural Ellren)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Ella c (genitive Ellas)
- a female given name, similar to English Ella. Contraction of Edla.