"Louise" meaning in English

See Louise in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /luːˈiːz/, /ləˈwiːz/
Rhymes: -iːz Etymology: From French Louise, the feminine form of Louis. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱlew-|*weyk-|id2=contain}}, {{der|en|fr|Louise}} French Louise Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Louise
  1. A female given name from French. Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names Translations (feminine form of Louis): Lluïsa (Catalan), Louise (Danish), Loviisa (Finnish), Louise (French), Luise (German), Laoise (Irish), Luisa (Italian), Lavīze [feminine] (Latvian), Luīze [feminine] (Latvian), Ruiha (Maori), Ruihi (Maori), Louiseu [feminine] (Norman), Lovise (Norwegian), Luiza (Polish), Luísa [feminine] (Portuguese), Luiza (Romanian), Луи́за (Luíza) [feminine] (Russian), Луи́з (Luíz) [feminine] (Russian), Luisa (Spanish), Lovisa (Swedish), Louise [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Louise-en-name-hUzjMuTL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norman translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 96 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 99 1 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 97 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 97 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Norman translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 97 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 98 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of 'feminine form of Louis': 90 10
  2. A municipality of Manitoba, Canada. Categories (place): Municipalities of Canada, Places in Canada, Places in Manitoba
    Sense id: en-Louise-en-name-cu4K2x4w
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Lake Louise Related terms: Lou, Louie, Louisa, Lula, Lulu
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Lake Louise"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱlew-",
        "4": "*weyk-",
        "id2": "contain"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "Louise"
      },
      "expansion": "French Louise",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French Louise, the feminine form of Louis.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Louise",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Lou"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Louie"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Louisa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Lula"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Lulu"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English female given names",
          "parents": [
            "Female given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English given names",
          "parents": [
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 7 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "99 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latvian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norman translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890 Arthur Weir, John Arthur Lockhart: The Romance of Sir Richard. Published by William Drysdale&Co. page 83",
          "text": "Louise, thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1957, Ed McBain, The Con Man, Armchair Detective Library, published 1991, →ISBN, page 47:",
          "text": "That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary Louise. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary Louise. Mary is too...plain?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers, G.K.Hall, →ISBN, page 111:",
          "text": "I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise, too untidy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name from French."
      ],
      "id": "en-Louise-en-name-hUzjMuTL",
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Lluïsa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Louise"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Loviisa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Louise"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Luise"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Laoise"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Luisa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Lavīze"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Luīze"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Ruiha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Ruihi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Louiseu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Lovise"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Luiza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Luísa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Luiza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Luíza",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Луи́за"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Luíz",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Луи́з"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Luisa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "word": "Lovisa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "Louise"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Municipalities of Canada",
          "orig": "en:Municipalities of Canada",
          "parents": [
            "Municipalities",
            "Places",
            "Political subdivisions",
            "Names",
            "Polities",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Canada",
          "orig": "en:Places in Canada",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Manitoba",
          "orig": "en:Places in Manitoba",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A municipality of Manitoba, Canada."
      ],
      "id": "en-Louise-en-name-cu4K2x4w",
      "links": [
        [
          "municipality",
          "municipality"
        ],
        [
          "Manitoba",
          "Manitoba#English"
        ],
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/luːˈiːz/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ləˈwiːz/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːz"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Municipality of Louise"
  ],
  "word": "Louise"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyk- (contain)",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱlew-",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 7 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/iːz",
    "Rhymes:English/iːz/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Latvian translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Norman translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Lake Louise"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱlew-",
        "4": "*weyk-",
        "id2": "contain"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "Louise"
      },
      "expansion": "French Louise",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French Louise, the feminine form of Louis.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Louise",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Lou"
    },
    {
      "word": "Louie"
    },
    {
      "word": "Louisa"
    },
    {
      "word": "Lula"
    },
    {
      "word": "Lulu"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English female given names",
        "English female given names from French",
        "English given names",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890 Arthur Weir, John Arthur Lockhart: The Romance of Sir Richard. Published by William Drysdale&Co. page 83",
          "text": "Louise, thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1957, Ed McBain, The Con Man, Armchair Detective Library, published 1991, →ISBN, page 47:",
          "text": "That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary Louise. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary Louise. Mary is too...plain?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers, G.K.Hall, →ISBN, page 111:",
          "text": "I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise, too untidy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name from French."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Municipalities of Canada",
        "en:Places in Canada",
        "en:Places in Manitoba"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A municipality of Manitoba, Canada."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "municipality",
          "municipality"
        ],
        [
          "Manitoba",
          "Manitoba#English"
        ],
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/luːˈiːz/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ləˈwiːz/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːz"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Lluïsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Louise"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Loviisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Louise"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Luise"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Laoise"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Luisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lavīze"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Luīze"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Ruiha"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Ruihi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Louiseu"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Lovise"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Luiza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Luísa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Luiza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Luíza",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Луи́за"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Luíz",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Луи́з"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Luisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "word": "Lovisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "feminine form of Louis",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "Louise"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Municipality of Louise"
  ],
  "word": "Louise"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Louise meaning in English (5.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.