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(prĭsĭl'ə) [diminutive of Lat. Prisca=ancient], in the New Testament, wife of Aquila.
 
 
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Priscilla is an English female given name derived from the Latin priscus (old). One suggestion is that it is intended to bestow long life on the bearer.

It appears in the New Testament variously as Priscilla and Prisca.

It first appears in English literature in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen (1596) and was adopted as an English name by the Puritans in the 17th Century.

  • Diminutive forms include Cilla, Pris, Prissy, and Scilla.

Famous bearers of the name include:

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  • Cilla
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