Vanessa

瓦妮莎

发音

UK /vəˈnɛsə/

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A female given name originating as a coinage.

    瓦妮莎

词源

Coined by Jonathan Swift in the 18th century as a pseudonym for a lady friend named Esther Vanhomrigh (or Van Homrigh), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, by taking the Dutch preposition van from her surname and adding -essa (perhaps influenced by the first syllable of Esther).

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