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Clelia

Clelia proper noun: a female given name from Latin.

Proper noun

Clelia

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • Clelia: the name, at first hearing, was so uncannily like Clara that Clara dispensed with the notion that she might have misheard the initial consonant, and that the girl might be supposed to be called Dahlia.1967, Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem the Golden, Popular Library, published 1979, →ISBN, page 16

Origin of Clelia

From Latin Cloelia.

Questions about Clelia

What does Clelia mean?
Clelia means a female given name from Latin.
What part of speech is Clelia?
Clelia is a proper noun.

Words near Clelia in the dictionary

  1. cleits
  2. Cleitus
  3. Cleja
  4. Clejani
  5. Cleland
  6. Clelia
  7. Clelland
  8. Clellands
  9. clem
  10. clemastine
  11. clematis

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