The Latin Emilia industrious.

Amelia latin meaning. Also in the dictionary if you look up the word Ameliorate it. Latin origin Dutch English German Italian Latin and Spanish use. Henry Fielding may possibly have first coined it for the heroine of his novel Amelia 1751 though forms such as Meelia Amaly and Aemelia existed.

It means Industrious one. The name is derived from Aemilia Latin of the Latin aemulus meaning imitating rivaling under the influence of the Old German amal. Blend of two medieval names.

Amalia as a girls name is a Latin name and the meaning of the name Amalia is rival eager work. The root of this name is Amal which means work In this case when translated work refers to industriousness and fertility rather than labor. In Latin it means hard work and striving.

The name was assimilated with Roman gens name Aemilia. From scientific Latin amelia classical Latin from a- ancient Greek μέλος limb scientific Latin -ia. The meaning of Amelia has more than one different etymologies.

The different meanings of the name Amelia are. Its thought to be a combination of Emilia and Amalia or the invention of novelist Henry Fielding. The Latin Emilia see Emily and the Latin German Amalia meaning work.

Striving and the Latinized Germanic Amalia meaning work. Old Norse ama to trouble. Title character in the childrens book Amelia Bedelia.