Zenobia
UK/zəˈnəʊ.bi.ə/US/zəˈnoʊ.bi.ə/
Zenobia proper noun: a female given name from Ancient Greek.
Proper noun
Zenobia
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- "I shall always think," said Zenobia, "that Lord Liverpool went much too far, though I never said so in his time; for I always uphold my friends."1880, Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion
- This Zenobia ("Nobby") Hopwood was old Worplesdon's ward, as I believe it is called. A pal of his, just before he stopped ticking over some years previously, had left him in charge of his daughter.1946, P. G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, Overlook Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12
Origin of Zenobia
From Latin Zēnobiā, from Ancient Greek Ζηνοβίᾱ (Zēnobíā), name of a third century Queen of Palmyra. Ostensibly from Ζήνων (Zḗnōn), an ancient derivative of Ζεύς (Zeús), but also suggested to be a rendering of the Arabic زَيْنَب (zaynab, “Zaynab”). First recorded as an English given name in Cornwall in 1586.
Words that rhyme with Zenobia
- aerophobia
- gerontophobia
- homophobia
- hydrophobia
- -phobia
- agoraphobia
- bathophobia
- Francophobia
- phobia
- radiophobia
- uxorophobia
- xanthophobia
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- xenophobia
- ablutophobia
- acephobia
- acousticophobia
- acrophobia
- adverbophobia
- agraphobia
- aibohphobia
- aichmophobia
- algophobia
- altophobia
- amathophobia
- amaxophobia
- ambulophobia
- androphobia
- anthophobia
- aphobia
- apiphobia
- arachibutyrophobia
- arachnophobia
- astraphobia
- astrophobia
- aviatophobia
- aviophobia
- bacillophobia
- batrachophobia
- botanophobia
- brontophobia
- bryobia
- cacophobia
- cancerphobia
- carcinophobia
- claustrophobia
- clinophobia
- clithrophobia
- coulrophobia
- cynophobia
- decidophobia
- emetophobia
- epistolophobia
- erotophobia
- eurotophobia
- gephyrophobia
- graphophobia
- gymnophobia
- gynophobia
- heliophobia
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Questions about Zenobia
- What does Zenobia mean?
- Zenobia means a female given name from Ancient Greek.
- What part of speech is Zenobia?
- Zenobia is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Zenobia?
- Zenobia is pronounced /zəˈnəʊ.bi.ə/ (UK).
Words near Zenobia in the dictionary
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