Given name
Polissena
“stranger”
Polissena is a given name from Greek. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Polissena goes back to Greek polus, meaning “stranger.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Polissena’s family of names
In Italian usage, Polissena has a conventional equivalent in the German form Polyxenia.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Polissena
- Poliksena Shishkina-IaveinRussian suffragette and physician (1875–1947)
- Polissena RuffoItalian princess1400–1420
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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