cornelia

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von cornelia im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A female given name in quiet use since the 18th century

Ah! boy ; Cornelia never with more care / Read to her sons, than she hath read to thee / Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator.

{i} female first name

used since the 18th century, but never popular in English

Relevante Übersetzungen

Cornelia Otis Skinner

born May 30, 1901, Chicago, Ill., U.S. died July 9, 1979, New York, N.Y. U.S. actress and writer. She made her stage debut in Blood and Sand (1921) with her actor-father, Otis Skinner, who also collaborated on her first play, Captain Fury (1925). In the 1930s she wrote and staged monodramas, including The Wives of Henry VIII and The Loves of Charles II. She won acclaim in such plays as Candida (1939), Lady Windermere's Fan (1946), and The Pleasure of His Company (1958), which she wrote with Samuel Taylor. She also cowrote the best-seller Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1942)

Silbentrennung

Cor·nel·ia

Türkische aussprache

kôrnilyı

Aussprache

/kôrˈnēlyə/ /kɔːrˈniːljə/

Etymologie

() From Latin Cornelia, name of a famous Roman matron, feminine form of the gens name Cornelius; in continental Europe, also a feminine form of the saint's name Cornelius.