"Melanie" meaning in English

See Melanie in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From French Mélanie, from Latin Melania, the name of two Roman fifth century saints, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|Mélanie}} French Mélanie, {{der|en|la|Melania}} Latin Melania, {{der|en|grc|μέλας||black, dark}} Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Melanie
  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names Related terms: Melanesia Translations (female given name): Melanie (Danish), Mélanie (French), Melanie (German), Malenia (Ingrian), Melania [feminine] (Polish), Мела́ния f cognate (Melánija) (Russian), Мала́нья f cognate (Malánʹja) (Russian), Ме́лани f transliteration (Mélani) (Russian), Melania [feminine] (Spanish), Мела́нія (Melánija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-Melanie-en-name-G1A8salx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Melanie meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "Mélanie"
      },
      "expansion": "French Mélanie",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "Melania"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Melania",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μέλας",
        "4": "",
        "5": "black, dark"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French Mélanie, from Latin Melania, the name of two Roman fifth century saints, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Melanie",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop, Virago Press, published 1994, page 64",
          "text": "'I learn the craft. I'm your uncle's apprentice, Melanie.' - - - She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name; there was a humorous inlection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name from Ancient Greek."
      ],
      "id": "en-Melanie-en-name-G1A8salx",
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Melanesia"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Melanie"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Mélanie"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Melanie"
        },
        {
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Malenia"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Melania"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Melánija",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Мела́ния f cognate"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Malánʹja",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Мала́нья f cognate"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Mélani",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Ме́лани f transliteration"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Melania"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "Melánija",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Мела́нія"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Melanie"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "Mélanie"
      },
      "expansion": "French Mélanie",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "Melania"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Melania",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μέλας",
        "4": "",
        "5": "black, dark"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French Mélanie, from Latin Melania, the name of two Roman fifth century saints, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Melanie",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Melanesia"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English female given names",
        "English female given names from Ancient Greek",
        "English given names",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop, Virago Press, published 1994, page 64",
          "text": "'I learn the craft. I'm your uncle's apprentice, Melanie.' - - - She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name; there was a humorous inlection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name from Ancient Greek."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Melanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Mélanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Melanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Malenia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Melania"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Melánija",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Мела́ния f cognate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Malánʹja",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Мала́нья f cognate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Mélani",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Ме́лани f transliteration"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Melania"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Melánija",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Мела́нія"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Melanie"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). 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.