Elizabeth

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Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔil- Biblical Hebrew אֵל (el) Biblical Hebrew נִשְׁבַּע (nishbá') Biblical Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (ʾĕlîšeḇaʿ)bor. Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet)der. Middle English Elizabeth English Elizabeth From Middle English Elizabeth, from the Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), a transliteration of the Old Testament Biblical Hebrew אלישבע (ʔĕlîšeḇaʕ, “my God is an oath”). See El and שבועה. Doublet of Elisheba and Isabel.

1. A female given name from Hebrew, popular since the 16th century.

   “Most happy letters! framed by skilful trade, / With which that happy name was first designed, - - - / Ye three Elizabeths! for ever live, / That three such graces did unto me give.”

   “"Because if you say it over and over to yourself, darling, it really is a quite strange-sounding name, isn't it? It's just as strange as any other from the Old Testament, Mehetabel or Hepsibah or Shulamith, and any of them might have got to be as fashionable as Elizabeth if a queen had been called by them.”

2. A surname originating as a matronymic.
3. A suburb of Adelaide, Australia; named for Elizabeth II.
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