Biografie van Priscilla
<b>Priscilla</b> is an English female given name adopted from the italian ''Priscilla'', derived from the Latin ''priscus (old)''. One suggestion is that it is intended to bestow long life on the bearer.<br />
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It appears in the New Testament variously as <b>Priscilla</b> and <b>Prisca</b>.<br />
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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.<br />
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*Diminutive forms include Cilla, <b>Pris</b>, <b>Prissy</b>, <b>Prill</b> and <b>Scilla</b>.<br />
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Famous bearers of the name include:<br />
* Saint Prisca<br />
* Priscilla, New Testament early Christian and companion to St. Paul<br />
* Prisca (empress), wife of Diocletian and mother of Valeria Galeria<br />
* Priscilla (singer), the name of several singers <br />
* Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis Presley<br />
* Priscilla Barnes, actress<br />
* Priscilla Owen, United States federal judge for the Fifth Circuit<br />
* Priscilla Cooper Tyler, former First Lady of the United States<br />
* The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, a film and subsequent musical<br />
* Pris, character in the film Blade Runner<br />
* Priscilla (French singer)<br />
** ''Priscilla'' (album), an album by Priscilla (French singer)<br />
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