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Gender Feminine
Usage Spanish (Rare), Literature
Other Forms FormsEstaurófila (variant form), Staurófila + Staurofíla (rare variant spellings)
Meaning & History
Spanish form of Staurophila. The use of this name was probably inspired by Camino real de la cruz (1721), which is one of the earliest Spanish translations of Regia Via Crucis (1635), an important counter-reformation devotional emblem book written by the Dutch-born Flemish Benedictine monk Benedictus van Haeften (1588-1648). The main character of his book is called Staurophila, whose name was hispanicized to Staurofila in the Spanish translations of the book.In original Spanish literature, Staurofila is the name of the eponymous character of the novel Staurofila (1889) written by the Mexican author María Nestora Téllez (1828-1890).