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Cornelia

//kɔɹˈniliə// name

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  1. 1
    A female given name from Latin in quiet use since the 18th century.

    "Ah! boy ; Cornelia never with more care / Read to her sons, than she hath read to thee / Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator."

Etymology

From Latin Cornēlia, name of a famous Roman matron, feminine form of the gens name Cornelius; in continental Europe, also a feminine form of the saint's name Cornelius.

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