Julia

//ˈd͡ʒuːli.ə// name

name ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Latin.

    "Salute Philologus & Iulia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saints which are with them."

  2. 2
    89 Julia, a main belt asteroid; named for Saint Julia of Corsica.
  3. 3
    A village in central Poland.
  4. 4
    A French surname.
  5. 5
    A programming language suited for numerical analysis and scientific computing.

    "And then came Julia, a general purpose programming language designed according to the requirements of scientific and technical computing, providing performance comparable to C/C++, and with an environment productive enough for prototyping like the high-level dynamic language of Python."

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"Julia felt like crying when she heard the news."

Etymology

From Latin Iūlia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Iūlius. Further popularized by early Christian saints. Doublet of Julie.

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