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語源 1

Latinised short form of Germanic compound names ending in -lind, -linde (“tender, soft”) (English -inda), such as Sieglinde and Dietlinde, and earlier names such as Old High German Irmilinda and Old Dutch Frithelind, from Proto-Germanic *linþaz (“gentle, mild”), whence also 古期英語 līþe (“gentle, mild, pliable, limber”) (English lithe). Later misassociated with unrelated Spanish linda (“beautiful”). The name became known through 19th century literature and the opera Linda di Chamounix (1842). More at lithe.

The coordination language is named after Linda Lovelace, a reference to the programming language Ada, itself named after Ada Lovelace.

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɪndə/
• 韻: -ɪndə

固有名詞

Linda

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1752, Countess D'Aulnoi, Thomas Parnell, The Court of Queen Mab. Tales of Fairies, London: M.Cooper, MDCCLII, page 328:

     The Orange-Tree stood in a Wood which belong'd to a Princess, who liv'd in a magnificent Palace not far off, and us'd to walk there. This Princess was young, beautiful and witty, and her Name Linda.

   • 1946 Jack Lawrence: Linda ( a popular song ) :

     When I go to sleep / I never count sheep / I count all the charms about Linda.

2. A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
3. (computer languages) A coordination language for parallel computing environments.
   • 2012, Evan Tick, Giancarlo Succi, editors, Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43:

     The aim of this paper is to analyse the concept of extending the parallel logic programming paradigm with Linda-like operations, thus facilitating distributed data storage, access and management.

使用する際の注意点

• Linda was the most popular name for women born in the U.S. 1947–1952.

派生語

• Lindie, Lindy, Lyn (pet forms)

関連する語

語源 2

Variant of Linde.

固有名詞

Linda (plural Lindas)

1. A surname from German.

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Linda is the 38103 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 582 individuals. Linda is most common among White (77.32%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Linda”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 439.

参考

• Linda Vista

アナグラム

• Dilan, Ladin, Landi, Ndali, iland, nidal