English

Proper noun

Philippa

1. A female given name.
   • 1854 John Esten Cooke, The Youth of Jefferson, Redfield (1854), page 22:

     "You detest every thing insincere, I know, charming Philippa — pardon me, your beautiful name betrays me constantly. Is it not — like your voice — stolen from poetry or music?"

   • 1963 Jane McIlvaine, Cammie's Cousin, Bobbs-Merrill, page 58:

     They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were "terribly amusing".

Related terms

• (pet forms): Phil, Pippa

Translations

Latin

Proper noun

Philippa f ‎(genitive Philippae); first declension

1. A female given name, character in the play Epidicus of Plautus.

Inflection

First declension.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Philippa f

1. Alternative spelling of Filipa