| 词条 | Arabella (given name) |
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Arabella is a female given name of Greek origin. Origin and historyThe earliest known use of the name in settlements was the modern-day northern Jordanian city of Irbid, known in ancient times as Arabella or Arbela (Άρβηλα in Ancient Greek). With regards to personal names, the first attested usage of the name was Arabella de Leuchars (c.1135-1203), a granddaughter of the Scottish king William the Lion.[1] The earliest English use was the granddaughter of Arabella de Leuchars, Arabella de Quincy (c.1186-1258), the daughter of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester. Typical for medieval bearers of the name, both these Arabellas are also documented as Orabel[la] and Orabilia, and in documents that Latinize names, as Orabilis.[2] A Latin construction which suffixes orare with ābilis interprets the name's meaning as "given to prayer" or "entreatable". Orabilis has been suggested as the root of the name Arabella and its variants. However, Orabilis may have been a purely speculative Latinized form, rather than Arabella's true root. Its usage, long being confined to Great Britain with no equivalent names in evident use elsewhere, would argue for a British origin, such as the Celtic òr a bheul "golden mouth", or the Scottish equivalent of Bel-óir, the Irish epithet for Saint Gregory the Great.[3] Another theory suggests that the name Arabella, like the name Annabel, is a Scottish development of Amabel, whose ultimate root is the Latin amabilis (lovable), which name had passed to Great Britain via usage in France.[4] The first high-profile English bearer of the name was royal claimant Arabella Stuart (1575-1615), also referred to as Arbella, a great-granddaughter of Margaret Tudor. The name Arabella remained rare in England until the Restoration ushered in a fashion for ornate names. Arabella Fermor (1696–1737) was a celebrated London beauty, whose highest profile evocation was as the heroine of Alexander Pope's 1712 poem The Rape of the Lock, under the name "Belinda". Pope introduced the 1717 edition of this poem with a dedication of "To Mrs Arabella Fermor".[5]Arabella remained fairly popular in Georgian and Victorian Britain. It began to decline in use in the late 1800's, and reached a nadir in the 1940's, when there were only 15 recorded births with that name. The name has seen a steady resurgence since the 1990's, reaching #95 in England and Wales in 2015.[6][7] Despite the potential for being valued as a "heritage name", as it was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet (see Arbella), Arabella was not as popular in the United States. A rare high-profile American bearer of the name was Arabella Mansfield (née Babb) (1846-1911), the first female to pass a United States bar examination: Mansfield's birth name was Belle Aurelia Babb, but she began using Arabella as her first name in her first year of law school in 1862. Arabella ranked in the Top 1000 most given names for American newborn girls in the 1880's, with a median ranking from that decade's respective yearly tallies being #969. Arabella then became progressively rarer in the United States, until a Top 1000 re-entry on the tally of the most given names for American newborn girls for the year 2006, which ranked it at #653: The name has continued to gain favor, ranking on the tally of the most given names for American newborn girls for the year 2014 at #174.[8] People named Arabella{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
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References{{wiktionary|orare|-abilis}}1. ^{{cite book| first=Matthew| last=Hammond| title=New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286| year=2013| publisher=The Boydell Press| location=Woodbridge Suff| page=43| isbn=978-1-84383-853-1}} {{Authority control}}{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}{{given name}}2. ^https://www.geni.com/people/Orabilis-de-Quincy/6000000002043241853 3. ^{{cite book| first= Patrick| last=Sims-Williams| title=Religion and Literature in Western England 600-800| year=1990| publisher=Cambridge University Press| location= Cambs.| pages=186–7| isbn=9780521673426}} 4. ^{{cite book| first1=Patrick| last1=Hanks| first2=Kate| last2=Hardcastle| first3=Flavia| last3=Hodges| title=A Dictionary of First Names| year=2006| publisher=Oxford University Press| location= Oxford OXON| isbn=9780198610601}} 5. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/afermor.html| title=Arabella Fermor (1696-1737)| publisher=David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History BerkshireHistory.com| access-date=23 April 2016}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2014/05/arabella.html| title=Arabella| publisher=BritishBabyNames.com| access-date=23 April 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2015 |title=Baby names in England and Wales: 2015 |website=Office for National Statistics |date=2 September 2016}} 8. ^http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=ARABELLA&ms=false&sw=f&exact=false 3 : Feminine given names|English feminine given names|Scottish feminine given names |
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