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Angela

See also: angela, angelą, Angéla, anĝela, Ángela, Ângela, and Āngēlā

English

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Etymology

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Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).

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Angela

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56:
      Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call.
    • 1996, Frank McCourt, chapter I, in Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins., →ISBN, page 5:
      And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway.
      ibid., page 39:
      The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela, behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No kiddin', kid. Your mother is Angela? I didn't know the Irish had any Angelas.

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  • Name of an Italian 15th/16th century saint. In general use in English since the 18th century.
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Estonian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑnɡ̊elɑ/, [ˈɑŋɡ̊elɑ]

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Angela

  1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela
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Faroese

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Angela f

  1. a female given name from Latin

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Matronymics

  • Angela's son: Angeluson
  • Angela's daughter: Angeludóttir

Declension

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singular
indefinite
nominative Angela
accusative Angelu
dative Angelu
genitive Angelu

German

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Angela f (proper noun, genitive Angelas or (with article) Angela, plural Angelas)

  1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela

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Declension of Angela [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Angela die Angelas1
genitive einer der Angelas, Angela der Angelas1
dative einer der Angela den Angelas1
accusative eine die Angela die Angelas1

1Rare.

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Italian

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Angela f

  1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Angela

Latin

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Angela f (genitive Angelae); first declension

  1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Angela

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Angela Angelae
genitive Angelae Angelārum
dative Angelae Angelīs
accusative Angelam Angelās
ablative Angelā Angelīs
vocative Angela Angelae

Lithuanian

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  • IPA(key): [ɐŋʲɡʲɛˈlɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɐ
  • Syllabification: An‧ge‧là

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Angelà f stress pattern 2

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Angela

Declension

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Declension of Angelà
singular
nominative Angelà
genitive Ángelos
dative Ángelai
accusative Ángelą
instrumental Angelà
locative Ángeloje
vocative Ángela

Slovak

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /anɡela/, [ˈaŋɡela]
  • Rhymes: -ela
  • Hyphenation: An‧ge‧la

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Angela f (diminutive Angelka)

  1. a female given name from Latin

Declension

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Declension of Angela
(pattern žena)
singularplural
nominativeAngelaAngely
genitiveAngelyAngiel,
Angel
dativeAngeleAngelám
accusativeAngeluAngely
locativeAngeleAngelách
instrumentalAngelouAngelami

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Further reading

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  • “Angela”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

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Angela c (genitive Angelas)

  1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela
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Tagalog

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Spanish Ángela.

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    • (Standard Tagalog)
      • IPA(key): /ˈʔaŋhela/ [ˌʔaŋ.hɛˈla]
      • IPA(key): /ˈʔand͡ʒela/ [ˌʔan̪.d͡ʒɛˈla] (English influence)
        • IPA(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈʔandjela/ [ˌʔan̪.d̪jɛˈla] (English influence)
        • Rhymes: -and͡ʒela (English influence), (no palatal assimilation) -andjela (English influence)
    • Syllabification: An‧ge‧la

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    Ángelá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜅ᜔ᜑᜒᜎ or ᜀᜈ᜔ᜇ᜔ᜌᜒᜎ)

    1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Angela
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