Meanings
alternative Lillias
- A female given name from Latin.
"Lilias! Lilias!" he answered. "Lilias! Where are you?" "In the garden," it came back like a sound from a golden flute.
1909, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter XXVII, in The Secret Garden1 more example
"Poor little thing! She is very wee and frail, isn't she? Only two months old. We came away from the north, as soon as I was able to travel. She is called Lily." I remembered Horace having once told me that his mother's name had been Lilias.
1864, Frances Eleanor Trollope, The Tale of Aunt Margaret's Trouble, in All the Year Round, Aug 11th, 1866, page 100
Origin
- Late Latinlilium“lily”
- SpanishLiliosa
- EnglishLilias
First recorded in 16th-century Scotland, a variant of Lilian or possibly from the Spanish Liliosa, name of a 9th-century saint, both ultimately from Late Latin lilium (“lily”).
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