marcelline
/mɑɹtʃɛlˈini/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from French.
Example Sentences
- "Mrs. Marcelline Hemingway Sanford, lecturer, writer and sister of the late Ernest Hemingway, died today in Bon Secours Hospital, Grosse Point."
- "The marriage of Marcelline Eugenie Thomson and David Livingstone Duffy took place yesterday at the New York home of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Philip T. Zabriskie, where Dr. Zabriskie performed the Episcopal ceremony. The bride, a daughter of Mrs. Lionel L. Roerkohl of La Crosse, Wis., and the late Mr. Roerkohl, graduated from Manhattanville College and did graduate work in Middle East area studies at New York University."
- "“A lot of it could be politically motivated,” said a poll respondent, Marcelline Farris, 47, a nurse in Lenore, W. Va., who is a Democrat."
Etymology
From French Marcelline.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: Marcelline