Vanessa

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• /vəˈnɛsə/
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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).

From the genus name.

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: Ванеса (Vanesa) — female given name
• Catalan: Vanessa — female given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 瓦妮莎 (Wǎnīshā) — female given name
• Czech: Vanesa — female given name
• Danish: Vanessa — female given name
• Esperanto: Vanesa — female given name
• French: Vanessa — female given name
• German: Vanessa — female given name
• Greek: Βανέσσα (Vanéssa) — female given name
• Hebrew: וונסה (vanesa) — female given name
• Hindi: वैनेसा (vainesā) — female given name
• Inuktitut: ᕙᓂᔅᓴ (fanissa) — female given name
• Italian: Vanessa — female given name
• Japanese: ヴァネサ (Vanesa) — female given name
• Japanese: ヴァネッサ — female given name
• Korean: 바네사 (Banesa) — female given name
• Portuguese: Vanessa — female given name
• Russian: Ване́сса (Vanéssa) — female given name
• Serbo-Croatian: Vanesa — female given name
• Serbo-Croatian: Ванеса — female given name
• Spanish: Vanesa — female given name
• Ukrainian: Ване́сса (Vanéssa) — female given name