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"CAMILLA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an attendant at a religious service". |
Date "CAMILLA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Camilla Virgin queen of the Volscians. Virgil (AEneid, vii. 809) says she was so swift that she could run over a field of corn without bending a single blade, or make her way over the sea without even wetting her feet. "Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main." Pope: Essay on Criticism, 372-3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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She helped her ally, King Turnus of the Rutuli fight Aeneas over Prince Pavinia.
Virgil claimed she was so fast she could run across the sea with getting her feet wet and run across a field of corn without bending any of the plants.
Virgil Aeneid VII, 809
Camilla is also the chicken that is Gonzo's love interest on The Muppet Show.
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Camilla is a city located in Mitchell County, Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 5,669. The city is the county seat of Mitchell County6.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Camilla."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Velocity | Mercury, Ariel, Camilla, Harlequin. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CAMILLA |
| Specialty definitions using "CAMILLA": Hunters and Runners. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CAMILLA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (hammock chair, hand-barrow, litter, sofa, strecher, stretcher). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Her name is Camilla Rhodes. (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch) Camilla, haven't you ever done something for another human being without getting something in return? (The Naked Truth; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Atis och Camilla (1963) Camilla (1954) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Portrait of Camilla Williams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "CAMILLA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CAMILLA" is used about 170 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 170 | 23,898 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CAMILLA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Camilla | First name Female | 8,000 | 1,040 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "CAMILLA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an attendant at a religious service". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "CAMILLA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Camilla | Female | Ancient Roman | Camillus |
| Camillus | Male | Ancient Roman | N/A |
| Kamil | Male | Czech | Camillus |
| Kamila | Female | Czech | Camilla |
| Camilla | Female | English | Camillus |
| Cammie | Female | English | Camilla |
| Camille | Female, Male | French | Camilla |
| Kamilla | Female | Hungarian | Camilla |
| Camilla | Female | Italian | Camillus |
| Camillo | Male | Italian | Camillus |
| Kamil | Male | Polish | Camillus |
| Kamila | Female | Polish | Camilla |
| Camilo | Male | Portuguese | Camillus |
| Camilla | Female | Roman Mythology | Camillus |
| Camelia | Female | Romanian | Camilla |
| Kamil | Male | Slovak | Camillus |
| Kamila | Female | Slovak | Camilla |
| Camilo | Male | Spanish | Camillus |
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1. Camilla, GA (city, FIPS 12624) |
Expression using "CAMILLA": Limenitis camilla. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CAMILLA": camilla-gate. | |
Ending with "CAMILLA": Anna-camilla. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Misspellings | |
"CAMILLA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Armilla, Caillau, Camilio, Camilleri, Camilleti, capilla, Cariglia, Carmula, Casillas, Cemil, Charmilles, Comilla, Comillas, Coxiella, Cumella, Gamilla, Jamilla, Kamille, Samiullah, Semilla, Sharmila, Shatilla. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-m" | |
-1 letter: calami, camail, laical. | |
-2 letters: calla, claim, lamia, lilac, llama, maill, malic. | |
-3 letters: alma, amia, call, calm, clam, laic, lama, lima, mail, mall, mica, mill. | |
-4 letters: aal, ail, aim, ala, all, ama, ami, cam, ill, lac, lam, mac, mil. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, al, am, la, li, ma, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-m" | |
+1 letter: camellia, climatal, lacrimal. | |
+2 letters: blackmail, camarilla, camellias, claimable, lacrimals, magically, manically. | |
+3 letters: alchemical, anemically, animalcula, animalcule, atomically, blackmails, camarillas, chlamydial, implacable, implacably, malolactic, maniacally, mosaically. | |
+4 letters: animalcules, animalculum, blackmailed, blackmailer, dynamically, gametically, lactalbumin, melancholia, mesalliance, miasmically, misalliance, misallocate, miscellanea, multicausal, multiracial, reclaimable, somatically. | |
+5 letters: academically, alchemically, amitotically, anatomically, aromatically, blackmailers, blackmailing, calamitously, climatically, demoniacally, dogmatically, dramatically, emblematical, empathically, emphatically, harmonically, immaculately, lactalbumins, magnetically, magnifically, majestically, malacologies, malacologist, mechanically, melancholiac, melancholias, mesalliances, metallically, misalliances, misallocated, misallocates, miscalculate, monastically, romantically, semantically, simoniacally, thematically, unicamerally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 4D 49 4C 4C 41 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -- .. .-.. .-.. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01001101 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A M I L L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 004D 0049 004C 004C 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37354743464635 |
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