The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromĒmerentiāna
- English todayEmerentiana
Learned borrowing from Latin Ēmerentiāna, feminine of Ēmerentiānus, from Ēmerentius + -ānus, from ēmereō (“to earn, merit, gain by service”). By surface analysis, Emerentia + -ana.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.