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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.
In most cases, the names are "one-off" Latinized forms produced by adding the genitive endings -ii or -i for a man, -ae for a woman, or -orum in plural, to a family name, thereby creating a Latinized form. For example, a name such as Macrochelys temminckii notionally represents a latinization of the family name of Coenraad Jacob Temminck to ...
Many times women needed unofficial names to differenciate them between their relatives, this was often done with the help of suffixes, for example the diminutive suffix illa/ila (alternatively ulla/ula or olla/ola) meaning "small" or "little" was used often, for example: Julilla for a young Julia, Drusilla for a young Drusa.
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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.
Cornelius is an originally Roman masculine name. Its derivation is uncertain but is suspected to be from the Latin cornu , "horn". [ 1 ] In Ireland it was used as an anglicization of the name Connor .
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 ...
Corrie Hermann (born 1932), Dutch GreenLeft politician ("Cornelia") Corry Kawilarang (born 1935), Indonesian badminton player; Corrie Laddé (1915–1996), Dutch swimmer ("Cornelia") Corrie Lothrop (born 1992), American gymnast; Corrie Moreau (born c. 1978), American evolutionary biologist and entomologist; Corrie Pabst (1865–1943), Dutch ...