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Cornelia is a feminine given name. It is a feminine form of the name Cornelius [1] or Cornelis. Nel, Nele, Nelly, Corey, Cornie, Lia, or Nelia can be used as a shortened version of Cornelia. Conny, Connie, Nele, or Neele are popular German short forms used in their own right. Lia and Corrie are diminutive versions of the Dutch name.
a Dragon like creature from French mythology, with a venomous bite, Guivre meaning wyvern or wyrm, or even serpent which the creatures name is derived from. Peluda La Velue, cover of a French pamphlet (1889) Also known as The Shaggy Beast, or La Velue, a legendary dragon from La Ferté-Bernard that shot deadly quills from its back. Germanic ...
A supposed anglicization of Creiddylad, the name of a character in Welsh mythology; Cordelia (King Lear), a central character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear; Cordelia, the character who is the object of seduction in Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Diary (a long section in his book Either/Or)
Ligeia – name meaning "clear-toned", daughter of Achelous and either Melpomene or Terpsichore; Parthenope – name meaning "maiden-voiced", Daughter of Achelous and Terpsichore; Pisinoe – daughter of Achelous and either Melpomene or Sterope; Thelxinoë – name meaning "mind charming" Swan maiden (Multi-cultural) – shapeshifts from human ...
The name could also derive from the latin gens Cornelia, one of the most famous tribe in ancient republican Roma, to whom Publio Cornelio Scipio (the winner of Annibale - Hannibal) and other belonged. The gens Cornelia gave the highest number of consolates during the ancient Roman republic. The name survives in Italy as Corneli or Cornelli.
Nyxie - Variation of the Greek name Nyx, meaning "night" or "darkness"—very powerful! 143. Octavia - Warrior Latin name meaning "the eighth," powerful position.
Baldr, god thought to be associated with light and/or day; is known by many other names, all of which have cognates in other Germanic languages, suggesting he may have been a pan-Germanic deity; Dagr, personification of day; Earendel, god of rising light and/or a star; Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess
The letters appear to present Cornelia (a woman with considerable cultural cachet) as opposed to her son's reforms, and Gaius as a rash radical detached from either the well-being of the Roman Republic or the wishes of his respected mother—meaning that the surviving fragments could either be outright contemporary forgeries or significantly ...