Camilla
See also: camilla
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin Camilla, feminine form of old Roman family name Camillus, of obscure and probably non-Latin origin.
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Camilla (countable and uncountable, plural Camillas)
- A warrior queen of the Volscians according to Virgil's Aeneid.
- A female given name from Latin.
- 2011, Ann Cleeves, Hidden Depths, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 165:
- Fancy southern names which she couldn't remember five minutes after they'd told her. Camilla? Amelia? Jemima? It didn't matter. Ashworth would have made a note of them.
- A city, the county seat of Mitchell County, Georgia, United States.
Translations edit
female given name
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Danish edit
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Camilla
- a female given name
References edit
- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 28 210 females with the given name have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.
Italian edit
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Camilla f
- a female given name
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Norwegian edit
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Camilla
- a female given name
Usage notes edit
- Rarely used in Norway before the 1960s. Popular from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Camilla through literature. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1817.
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Proper noun edit
Camilla c (genitive Camillas)
- a female given name popular from the 1960s to the 1990s
References edit
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 34 686 females with the given name Camilla living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June, 2011.