Marcella

From Latin Marcella.

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Marcella

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 2010, Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 102:

     Marcella and Nathaniel. Now I know their names. I haven't thought much about having children, but if I did, I wouldn't give them names like that. They're the sort of names you choose if you think you're someone to be reckoned with.

• Marcee

• Marcelle
• Marcia

Feminine form of Mārcellus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maːrˈkɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [marˈt͡ʃɛl.la]

Mārcella f (genitive Mārcellae, masculine Mārcellus); first declension

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A feminine praenomen.
2. A Roman cognomen — held by:
   1. Claudia Marcella

First-declension noun.