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Ophelia

//ɒˈfiː.lɪə// name

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  1. 1
    A female given name from Ancient Greek.

    "I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers // Could not, with all their quantity of love, // Make up my sum."

  2. 2
    A moon of Uranus.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleiă, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the daugher of Polonius and ill-fated love interest of Hamlet. The moon is named after this character.

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