name
Meaning 1
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Amelia
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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ə-mēʹlē-ə
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ə-mēʹlyə
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/əˈmiːli.ə/
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/əˈmiːljə/
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rhymes with -iːliə
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rhymes with -iːljə
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 M IY1 L Y AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
The alternative name for Amelia Courthouse, Amelia County, Virginia, US.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
The congenital absence of one or more limbs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
Examples
- 2021, Femi Oyebode, Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Cambridge University Press, page 179, Furthermore, the fact that people with amelia can experience phantom limbs, despite never having had any limbs, points to the existence of neural systems ready to respond to sensory inputs from limbs.
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noun
Meaning 4
congenital absence of an arm or leg
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: birth defect, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder, congenital abnormality
History
Etymology
A variant of Amalia, derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amal, "vigor, bravery". The name and its variants have been confused with the Latin name Aemilia (whence Emilia, Emily) and the French Aimée (whence Amy).
From a- + Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: Amèlia — female given name
- Chinese Mandarin: 阿米利亞 /阿米利亚 (Āmǐlìyà) — female given name
- Czech: Amálie — female given name
- Danish: Amalie — female given name
- Finnish: Amalia — female given name
- French: Amélie — female given name
- German: Amelie — female given name
- Greenlandic: Amma — female given name
- Hungarian: Amália — female given name
- Latvian: Amālija — female given name
- Norman: Mêlie — female given name
- Norman: Mélie — female given name
- Norwegian: Amalie — female given name
- Polish: Amelia — female given name
- Portuguese: Amélia — female given name
- Russian: Аме́лия (Amélija) — female given name
- Scottish Gaelic: Milde — female given name
- Slovak: Amália — female given name
- Spanish: Amelia — female given name
- Swedish: Amalia — female given name
- French: amélie — congenital absence of one or more limbs
- German: Amelie — congenital absence of one or more limbs
- Italian: amelia — congenital absence of one or more limbs
- Portuguese: amelia — congenital absence of one or more limbs
- Spanish: amelia — congenital absence of one or more limbs
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