Eliza

See also: eliza, Elīza, and Elizą

English

Etymology

Shortened from Elizabeth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈlaɪzə/
• Rhymes: -aɪzə

Proper noun

Eliza

1. A female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century.
   • 1993, Ruth Rendell, The Crocodile Bird, page 76:

     "My real name's !Eliza!. I've sometimes thought she called me after Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion." "Come again?" said Sean. "Because she intended to do the same thing with me as Pygmalion did with Galatea and as Professor Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle, he remade her to be the way he wanted her, or let's say he had an ideal and he tried to turn her into that." - - - "She said she didn't, anyway, when I asked her. She just liked the name."

Anagrams

• Alize, Alizé, aizel

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Elise, originally diminutive of Elisabeth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈli.za/

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• Rhymes: -iza
• Syllabification: E‧li‧za

Proper noun

Eliza f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Eliza

Declension

Declension of Eliza

	singular	plural
nominative	Eliza	Elizy
genitive	Elizy	Eliz
dative	Elizie	Elizom
accusative	Elizę	Elizy
instrumental	Elizą	Elizami
locative	Elizie	Elizach
vocative	Elizo	Elizy

Further reading

• Eliza in Polish dictionaries at PWN