Etymology

Selena

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Today it means: A female given name from Ancient Greek. Full definition →

Latin Caelīna
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromCaelīna“heavenly”
  2. English todaySelena

Either a variant of Selina, from Latin Caelīna (“heavenly”, from caelum (“sky, heaven”)), or from Selene, the Ancient Greek goddess of the moon.

Words from the same roots

LatinCaelīna all →

CelineSelina

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