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“belonging to Apollo”
Language context for this entry: Faroese
/ˈapɛlˌlœuːna/ · Faroese
01 / Meaning & origin
Abellóna is a feminine given name documented in Faroese. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Apollōnia. It is a form of Apollōnia, for which Italian Wikipedia gives the meaning “belonging to Apollo”.
Meaning: “belonging to Apollo”
Ultimately from Latin Apollōnia.
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Abellona— “of Apollo”
They both of them had many votaries in Greece; such names as Apollodorus (gift of Apollo), Apollonius, and the like, arising in plenty, but none of them have continued into Christian times, though Apollos was a companion of St. Paul. The sole exception is Apollonia, an Alexandrian maiden, whose martyrdom began by the extraction of all her teeth, thus establishing St. Apolline, as the French call her, as the favourite subject of invocation in the toothache. Abellona, the…
They both of them had many votaries in Greece; such names as Apollodorus (gift of Apollo), Apollonius, and the like, arising in plenty, but none of them have continued into Christian times, though Apollos was a companion of St. Paul. The sole exception is Apollonia, an Alexandrian maiden, whose martyrdom began by the extraction of all her teeth, thus establishing St. Apolline, as the French call her, as the favourite subject of invocation in the toothache. Abellona, the Danish form of this name, is a great favourite in Jutland and the isles, probably from some relic of the toothless maiden. The Slovaks use it as Polonija or Polona.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part III, Chapter II (Names From Greek Mythology), Section V (Apollo and Artemis) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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