St Ives

English

Etymology

  • Cornwall: Seen from 1284. From St Ia, a Cornish saint.[1]
  • Cambridgeshire: Seen from 1110. From Ivo of Ramsey, a Cornish saint whose relics were found here.[1]
  • Dorset: Seen from 1167. 'Place overgrown with ivy' from Old English *īfet. Saint added more recently in reference to other settlements called St Ives.[1]
  • New South Wales: Named in 1900, likely from either the Cornish town or after Isaac Ellis Ives, a local politician.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sənt ˈaɪvz/

Proper noun

St Ives

  1. A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5140). [3]
  2. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, formerly in the county of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL3172). [4]
  3. A village in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset, England (OS grid ref SU1204).
  4. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Derived terms

  • St Leonards and St Ives

See also

References

  1. A. D. Mills, Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, 1997, p.282
  2. St Ives, Dictionary of Sydney, 2008
  3. Parish map (Cornwall)
  4. Parish map (Huntingdonshire)
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