Rowena
English
Etymology
From the name of the daughter of Hengist and wife of Vortigern in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century pseudohistorical Latin work Historia regum Britanniae. There have been attempts to connect it to some unattested Old English or Common Brittonic name, but without any real evidence. It was revived after Walter Scott used it in his novel Ivanhoe (1819).[1]
Proper noun
Rowena
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Kentucky
- A community in New Brunswick, Canada
- A town in New South Wales, Australia
- A census-designated place in Oregon
- An unincorporatedcommunity in South Dakota
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Texas
References
- Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
Anagrams
- wear on
Cebuano
Etymology
From English Rowena, from Old Saxon, possibly from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiwunjō.
Proper noun
Rowena
- a female given name from the Germanic languages
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Rowena.