Vanessa

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

Vanessa f

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

• (genus): Vanessa atalanta (red admiral), Vanessa cardui (painted lady, cosmopolitan) - selected species

• Vanessa (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vanessa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Vanessa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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

• IPA^(key): /vəˈnɛsə/

• Audio (UK):

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

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.

   • 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News‎^[1]:

     Vanessa likes the ultrapopular Madison as a girl's name, which tells you everything you need to know about her personality.

   • 2019 February 8, Dan Merica, “Key supporters tell Justin Fairfax to step down after 2nd sexual assault allegation”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Democrats called for investigation, not resignation, after Vanessa Tyson accused Justin Fairfax of sexual assault earlier this week.

• Avanses, Navases, Vanasse

• Baniza — mispelled

Borrowed from English Vanessa.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaˈnesa/ [ˌbaˈn̪i.s̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: Va‧nes‧sa

Vanessa (Badlit spelling ᜊᜈᜒᜐ)

1. a female given name from English

Vanessa

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

From English Vanessa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑnesːɑ/, [ˈʋɑ̝ne̞s̠ːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnesːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Va‧nes‧sa
• Hyphenation^(key): Va‧nes‧sa

Vanessa

1. a female given name

• Vanessa is the 279^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,885 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,036 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• IPA^(key): /va.nɛ.sa/ ~ /va.ne.sa/

Vanessa f

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

• IPA^(key): [vaˈnɛsa]

• Audio:

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• Audio (Austria):

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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: (Brazil) -esɐ, (Portugal) -ɛsɐ
• Hyphenation: Va‧nes‧sa

Vanessa f (plural Vanessas)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Vanessa

Unadapted borrowing from English Vanessa.

• IPA^(key): /baˈnesa/ [baˈne.sa]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: Va‧nes‧sa

Vanessa f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Vanessa

Borrowed from English Vanessa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /vaˈnesa/ [vɐˈn̪ɛː.sɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /baˈnesa/ [bɐˈn̪ɛː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: Va‧ne‧ssa

Vanessa (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈᜒᜐ)

1. a female given name from English