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Lilias

Lilias proper noun: a female given name from Latin.

Proper noun

Lilias

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • "Poor little thing! She is very wee and frail, isn't she? Only two months old. We came away from the north, as soon as I was able to travel. She is called Lily."
      I remembered Horace having once told me that his mother's name had been Lilias.1864, Frances Eleanor Trollope, The Tale of Aunt Margaret's Trouble, in All the Year Round, Aug 11th, 1866, page 100
    • "Lilias! Lilias!" he answered. "Lilias! Where are you?"
      "In the garden," it came back like a sound from a golden flute.1909, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter XXVII, in The Secret Garden

Forms of Lilias

alternative formLillias

Origin of Lilias

First recorded in 16th-century Scotland, a variant of Lilian or possibly from the Spanish Liliosa, name of a 9th-century saint, both ultimately from Late Latin lilium (“lily”).

Questions about Lilias

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

Words near Lilias in the dictionary

  1. Lilia
  2. liliaceous
  3. Lilian
  4. Liliana
  5. Lilianna
  6. Lilias
  7. liliate
  8. liliates
  9. Lilibet
  10. Lilibeth
  11. Lilibeths

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