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Emilia

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A female given name from Latin, a rare Latinized variant of Emily.
  2. A historical region of Italy, approximately coterminous with modern Emilia-Romagna.

Equivalents

EspañolEmilia
FrançaisEmiliaÉmilie
DeutschEmilien
4 more languages
CatalàEmília
ItalianoEmilia
PortuguêsEmília
РусскийЭмилия

Examples

“"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; […]”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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