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Origin of the name APOLLINE.
Etymology of the name APOLLINE.
Meaning of the baby name APOLLINE.

  

APOLLINE.  French form of Greek Apollonia (q.v.), meaning "of Apollo."

... St. Apolline, as the French call Apollonia, is the favorite subject of invocation in the tooth-ache... (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)

... On the last day of Michaelmas, under the form of a wolf, at a mile from Dôle, in the farm of Gorge, a vineyard belonging to Chastenoy, near the wood of La Serre, Gilles Garnier had attacked a little maiden of ten or twelve years old, and had slain her with his teeth and claws; he had then drawn her into the wood, stripped her, gnawed the flesh from her legs and arms, and had enjoyed his meal so much, that, inspired with conjugal affection, he had brought some of the flesh home for his wife Apolline... (The Book of Were-wolves, Baring-Gould, 1865)

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