Ophelia
proper nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ɒˈfiː.lɪə//
- United Kingdom//əʊˈfiː.lɪə//
- United Kingdom//əˈfiː.lɪə//
- United States//oʊˈfi.əl.jə//
- United States//oʊˈfi.li.ə//
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
proper noun
- 1
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers // Could not, with all their quantity of love, // Make up my sum.
The eldest daughter of a nobleman / Ophelia lived in fantasy / But love was a cold bed full of scorpions / The venom stole her sanity
- 2
A moon of Uranus.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleiă, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the daugher of Polonius and ill-fated love interest of Hamlet. The moon (of Uranus) is named after this character. Doublet of anopheles