What does "emilia" mean?

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

Emilia

Common synonyms include: emily, firstname, forename, given name, historic region, plant genus emilia.

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Proper Noun

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

"Come, Emilia! Your father is waiting for you."