Eleanor
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Eleanor is a feminine given name. There are two main possibilities for the origin of this name. In English it is often considered a form of "Helen" (or "Ellen" or "Elaine"), deriving from the Greek for "light".
An alternative meaning comes from the first known bearer of the name; Eleanor of Aquitaine. She was named after her mother, Ænor de Châtellerault, and called "Aliénor", (from "Alia-Aenor"), which means "other-Aenor" in the langue d'oc (Occitan language), it became "Eléanor" in the northern Langue d'oïl and in English.
More recently J.R.R. Tolkien created an alternative meaning for this name using his made up elvish language Quenya. In his trilogy The Lord of the Rings Elanor means "sun-star" (el: star, and anor: sun), and is the name of a golden five-pointed flower that grows in the woods of Lothlórien and the given name of a golden-haired child.
In the language of the Yoruba peoples of West Africa, a similar name has existed for centuries, recently rising to prominence as a result of its similarity to the Western name Eleanor. Eyla-Nor, literally translated means “nosey” or “overly inquisitive”, typically used as a moniker for someone who is excessively concerned about the affairs of others. The domestic mouse, is known by the Yoruba as Eyla-Nor Rob, (Pronounced Eleanor Robb) literally meaning the inquisitive little rat, to differentiate this creature from its larger rodent cousin.
There are also many variants in other languages.
First names that can be interpreted as Eleanor in
Eleanor uses
Women
- Several queens are known as Queen Eleanor, most notabley Eleanor of Aquitaine
- The Infanta Leonor of Spain
- Eleanor Roosevelt, the activist, diplomat, and wife and First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Eleanor Rigby, the fictional titular subject of a song by The Beatles; although she is fictional, a gravestone bearing the name Eleanor Rigby exists in a church in the band's birthplace of Liverpool
Others
- Eleanor, a codenamed car in both the 1974 film Gone in 60 Seconds (as the 1971-1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1) and its 2000 remake (as the 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500).
- the Eleanor, one of three ships involved in the Boston Tea Party
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