Linnea
See also: Linnéa
English
editProper noun
editLinnea
- A female given name from Latin of Swedish origin, occasionally used since the twentieth century.
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editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editLinnea
- a female given name borrowed from Swedish in the nineteenth century
Declension
editInflection of Linnea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Linnea | Linneat | |
genitive | Linnean | Linneoiden Linneoitten | |
partitive | Linneaa | Linneoita | |
illative | Linneaan | Linneoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Linnea | Linneat | |
accusative | nom. | Linnea | Linneat |
gen. | Linnean | ||
genitive | Linnean | Linneoiden Linneoitten Linneain rare | |
partitive | Linneaa | Linneoita | |
inessive | Linneassa | Linneoissa | |
elative | Linneasta | Linneoista | |
illative | Linneaan | Linneoihin | |
adessive | Linnealla | Linneoilla | |
ablative | Linnealta | Linneoilta | |
allative | Linnealle | Linneoille | |
essive | Linneana | Linneoina | |
translative | Linneaksi | Linneoiksi | |
abessive | Linneatta | Linneoitta | |
instructive | — | Linneoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
editStatistics
edit- Linnea is the 154th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 4,510 female individuals (and as a middle name to 15,828 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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editNorwegian
editProper noun
editLinnea
- a female given name borrowed from Sweden in the nineteenth century
Swedish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editA flower name coined in the eighteenth century, from Linnaea borealis, twinflower, named after the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné( 1707-1778). His original family name Linnaeus was a Latinization of Swedish Lind (“linden tree”). First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1842 as Linnaea.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editLinnea c (genitive Linneas)
- a female given name
References
edit- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 67 376 females with the given name Linnea (compared to 94 490 named Linnéa) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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