e v e l y nとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Medieval English form of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root *avi-, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“ (compare Latin aveo (“to wish for”)), or aval “strength”. By folk etymology the name Eve is seen as a diminutive of the female given name. Doublet of Eileen. Also compare Ava.

発音

• IPA: (female given name) /ˈɛvəlɪn/, (male given name) /ˈiːvlɪn/

固有名詞

Evelyn

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, Evelyn Hope:

     Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour.

   • 1980, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Alfred A.Knopf, published 1981, →ISBN, page 179:

     "I don't wear flowers," Evelyn Lilith said, and tossed the unwanted chain into the air, spearing it before it fell with a pellet from her unerring Daisy air-pistol. Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill. And also Eve. The Adam's-apple of my eye.

2. A surname originating as a matronymic.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.

   Evelyn Waugh

4. A place name:
   1. A rural locality in Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia.
   2. A community in Middlesex Centre municipality, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
   3. A locality in Munising Township, Alger County, Michigan, United States.
   4. An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas, United States.
   5. A former unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia, United States.

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