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Emilia

proper nounattested in dialogue

A female given name from Latin, a rare Latinized variant of Emily.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Latin, a rare Latinized variant of Emily.

    "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; […]

  2. 2

    historicalA historical region of Italy, approximately coterminous with modern Emilia-Romagna.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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