Emilia

Proper noun

Emilia

1. A female given name from Latin, a rare Latinized variant of Emily.
   • I don't hold grudges to anyone but Emilia.
   • "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...1999, Kali Israel, Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture, OUP, published 2002, →ISBN
2. (historical) A historical region of Italy, approximately coterminous with modern Emilia-Romagna.