Amelia

See also amelia

English

Etymology

A variant of Amalia, derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amal, "vigor, bravery". The name and its variants have been confused with the Latin name Aemilia, Emilia, Emily.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ə-mēʹlē-ə, IPA: /əˈmiːliə/, X-SAMPA: /@"mi:li@/ or enPR: ə-mēʹlyə, IPA: /əˈmiːljə/, X-SAMPA: /@"mi:lj@/

• Rhymes: -iːliə

Proper noun

Amelia

1. A female given name
   • 1776 Adam Fitz-Adam, The World of Adam Fitz-Adam, Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:

     By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.

   • 1982 Carol Fenner, Saving Amelia Earhart,The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction, ISBN 0814316956 page 66:

     We must have heard it first on the battery radio, the news about Amelia Earhart, lost over the ocean. - - - Air Heart, I saw it spelled, Amelia ... a name like a soft, bold bird.

See also

• Alma
• Amy
• Emily

Translations

female given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿米利亚 (cmn) (āmǐlìyà)

• Czech: Amálie (cs) f
• Danish: Amalie (da)
• Finnish: Amalia (fi)
• French: Amélie (fr)

• German: Amelie (de)
• Latvian: Amālija (lv) f
• Norwegian: Amalie (no)
• Spanish: Amelia (es)
• Swedish: Amalia (sv)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Amelia f

1. A female given name, cognate to English Amelia.