The story
- Latin · derived fromHortēnsia
- English todayHortense
From the French form of the Latin Hortēnsia, feminine form of Hortēnsius (“name of a Roman gens”), probably derived from hortēnsis (“having to do with gardens”) on the basis that the first to bear the name was a gardener.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.