Ivy

Etymology 1
From, the name of a plant. An ivy branch used to be hung outside an establishment to advertise that it sold alcohol, so it may originally been an occupationational surname for the proprietor of such an establishment.

Proper noun

 * 1) ; popular in the UK in the beginning of the 20th century.
 * 2) * 1882 Something to Read. (Edited by) Edwin John Bret: Something to read novelette. page 254:
 * Little Ivy's life, as the months pass on, is a quiet, uneventful one, but exceedingly happy withal: - - - "You have a strange name, my dear," the old lady says one day, and the child answers in her serious, old-fashioned way, "Yes, so everyone has always said. You know my mamma died when I was born, and papa named me that because he said that I came when his heart was all aching with sorrow, and twined around it and comforted him."

Etymology 2
Ellipsis of.

Noun

 * 1)  A university that is part of the.

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
, from.