Ségolène, also Sigolène or Sigolina, is a French name, now solely feminine but previously, in the forms Ségolène, Sigolin or Sigolinus, also occasionally masculine. It is derived from a diminutive of Siga, a mediaeval hypocoristic of Germanic names having the first element Sig- (meaning "victory"). The rarer masculine form of the name was derived in the same way from the masculine hypocoristic Sigo.[1] An alternative explanation of the feminine name is that it is the equivalent of the German name Sieglinde.[2] The form of the name was apparently influenced by the similar Gaulish element Sego- ("victory" or "strength").[3]
People
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Female
edit- Saint Segolena of Troclar otherwise Sigolena of Albi (7th century), French abbess and saint
- Ségolène Amiot (born 1986), French politician
- Ségolène Berger (born 1978), French tennis player
- Ségolène Girard (born 1995), Swiss volleyball player
- Ségolène Lefebvre (born 1993), French boxer
- Ségolène Royal (born 1953), French politician, partner of François Hollande
- Sigolène Vinson (born 1974), French writer and journalist, survivor of the Charlie Hebdo killings
Male
edit- Saint Sigolin of Stavelot (7th century), abbot of Stavelot Abbey
Places
edit- Sainte-Sigolène, commune in the Haute-Loire department, France
References
edit- ^ Marie-Thérèse Morlet, Les noms de personnes sur le territoire de l’ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle, Paris, CNRS, t. I ("les noms issus du germanique continental et les créations gallo-germaniques"), 1968, pp. 197a–200a
- ^ Robert Ferguson, The Teutonic Name-system, Applied to the Family Names of France, England and Germany, 1864, pp. 109-110, 172
- ^ X. Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue Gauloise, 2003, p. 269