Vanessa

New Latin, from the Ancient Greek deity Φάνης (Phánēs). Named by Johan Christian Fabricius.

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – brush-footed butterflies including the red admirals.

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Papilioniformes - series; Nymphalidae - family; Nymphalinae - subfamily; Nymphalini - tribe

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Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend named Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh.[1]

• IPA^(key): /vəˈnɛsə/
• Hyphenation: Va‧nes‧sa

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Vanessa

1. A female given name originating as a coinage.
   • 1726 Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa:

     Vanessa be the Name / By which thou shalt be known to Fame. / Vanessa, by the Gods enroll'd: / Her Name on Earth - shall not be told.

   • 1978, Maeve Binchy, Victoria Line, Central Line, Arrow, published 1993, →ISBN, pages 178, 179:

     A kind of girl that May had before only seen in the pages of fashion magazines, bored, disdainful, elegant, reluctantly admitted her. - - - She was asked to see Vanessa on the way out. She knew that the girl would be called something like Vanessa.

• Avanses, Navases, Vanasse

Vanessa

1. a female given name from English, of recent usage

• IPA^(key): /va.nɛ.sa/, /va.ne.sa/

Vanessa f

1. a female given name from English, of recent usage

• IPA^(key): [vaˈnɛsa]

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• Hyphenation: Va‧nes‧sa

Vanessa

1. a female given name from English, of recent usage

• IPA^(key): /vaˈnes.sa/
• Rhymes: -essa
• Hyphenation: Va‧nés‧sa

Vanessa f

1. a female given name from English, of recent usage

• navasse, vanasse

• Rhymes: -ɛsɐ
• Hyphenation: Va‧nes‧sa

Vanessa f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Vanessa