| | # {{given name|female|from=Latin|}}, a rare [[latinized]] variant of [[Emily]]. | | # {{given name|female|from=Latin|}}, a rare [[latinized]] variant of [[Emily]]. |
| | #* '''1999''' Kali Israel, ''Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture'', OUP 2002, ISBN 0195158199: | | #* '''1999''' Kali Israel, ''Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture'', OUP 2002, ISBN 0195158199: |
| − | #*: "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; | + | #*: "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; {{...}} |
| − | # The former name of a region of [[Italy]] now known as [[Emilia-Romagna]] | + | # {{historical}} A region of [[Italy]], approximately coterminous with modern [[Emilia-Romagna]]. |
