Isabella

Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816.

• IPA^(key): /ɪzəˈbɛlə/

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Isabella

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 64, column 1:

     [C]an you ſo ſteed me, / As bring me to the ſight of Iſabella, / A Nouice of this place, and the faire Siſter / To her vnhappie brother Claudio?

   • 1857 Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, Vol. 3, page 2 ("Elizabeth, eighth daughter of Edward I"):

     A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth.

• Popular in England in the 19th century, and again in all English-speaking countries in the 2000s.

• Isabelline
• Isabella County

Isabella (countable and uncountable, plural Isabellas)

2. (countable) A grape cultivar popular in the former USSR derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca.
3. (uncountable) Obsolete form of isabella.
   • 1864, Sir William Crookes, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, volume 10, page 301:

     If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls […]

   • 1901 August 18, “Women Here and There”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 September 2025:

     The late Queen Victoria drove behind horses of a peculiar shade which nothing but Isabella color would describe. Now it is to appear in furs for the élite.

   • 1915 October 28, “Weddings”, in The Globe, volume LXXII, number 20,523, Toronto, Ont., →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

     Mr. and Mrs. Moes left after the reception for New York and other places, the bride wearing Burgundy cloth with a chic grey hat and veil and Isabella fox furs.

• sailable

From Latin Isabella in the Middle Ages.

Isabella

1. a female given name from Latin popular in the 2000s

• Isabel
• Elisabeth and its variants

• Isabel

Borrowed from Spanish Isabel and Latin Isabella.

• IPA^(key): /ˌi.zaːˈbɛ.laː/

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• Hyphenation: Isa‧bel‧la
• Rhymes: -ɛlaː

Isabella f

1. a female given name

Isabella f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Isabella: Isabelluson
• daughter of Isabella: Isabelludóttir

From Latin Isabella, recorded since the end of 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈisɑbelːɑ/, [ˈis̠ɑ̝ˌbe̞lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): I‧sa‧bel‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): I‧sa‧bel‧la

Isabella

1. a female given name from Latin
   • 1918, Anni Swan, Kaarinan kesäloma, WSOY, published 1956, page 27:

     Kaarina huomasi, että hienot, romaaneista lainatut nimet Fransiska, Isabella, Armand ja Raoul jokapäiväisessä käytännössä olivat yksinkertaisesti Sikke, Iisa, Manne ja Ralle. Ainoastaan kunnallisneuvoksetar käytti alkuperäisiä nimiä, hänkin enimmäkseen vieraiden läsnäollessa ja juhlallisimmissa tilaisuuksissa.

     Kaarina noticed that the fancy names Fransiska, Isabella, Armand and Raoul, that were gotten from books, had in everyday use turned into simply Sikke, Iisa, Manne and Ralle. Only the municipal concuillor used the original names, her too only when guests were present and in more solemn celebrations.

• Iisa
• Elisabet (and its variants)

• Isabella is the 276^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,901 female individuals (and as a middle name to 4,949 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From Latin Isabella.

• IPA^(key): /ʔizaˈbɛla/

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Isabella

1. a female given name from Latin, popular in the 2000's

• Isabel
• Isabell
• Isabelle
• Elisabeth and its variants

From (Old) Spanish Isabel.

• IPA^(key): /i.zaˈbɛl.la/, /i.zaˈbel.la/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛlla, -ella
• Hyphenation: I‧sa‧bèl‧la, I‧sa‧bél‧la

Isabella f

1. a female given name

• Elisabetta

Latinized form of Spanish Isabel

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪ.saˈbɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.s̬aˈbɛl.la]

Isabella f sg (genitive Isabellae); first declension

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Isabella

First-declension noun, singular only.

From Latin Isabella. First recorded in Norway in the 14th century.

Isabella

1. a female given name from Latin popular in the 2000s

• Isabel
• Isabell
• Elisabeth and its variants

Isabella f

1. a female given name, variant of Isabel

From Latin Isabella. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1564.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪsa²bɛla/

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Isabella c (genitive Isabellas)

1. a female given name from Latin popular in the 2000s

• Isa
• Isabel
• Isabell
• Isabelle
• Elisabet and its variants