Meanings
proper noun
- A female given name from Latin, a rare Latinized variant of Emily.
I don't hold grudges to anyone but Emilia.
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"Emily" was preserved and erased, reduced to the sexless cypher "E.", and then came to denote not the shared and ordinary name "Emily" but a new, exotic, self-begotten "Emilia". No longer masculine Francis but feminine-with-a-difference Emilia, vaguely Latin or Italian or French but in any case foreign, not domestic; […]
1999, Kali Israel, Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture, OUP, published 2002, →ISBN - historicalA historical region of Italy, approximately coterminous with modern Emilia-Romagna.
Translations
Catalan Emília
- Emíliahistorical region of Italy
Chinese Mandarin 艾米利亞 /艾米利亚
- 艾米利亞 /艾米利亚 (Àimǐlìyà)historical region of Italy
French Émilie
- Émiliehistorical region of Italy
German Emilien
- Emilienhistorical region of Italy
Italian Emilia
- Emiliahistorical region of Italy
Portuguese Emília
- Emíliahistorical region of Italy
Russian Эми́лия
- Эми́лия (Emílija)historical region of Italy
Spanish Emilia
- Emiliahistorical region of Italy
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Cite this entry
APA
Emilia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Emilia
MLA
“Emilia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Emilia. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Emilia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Emilia.
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