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/kəˈmiːlə/ kə-MEE-lə
/kəˈmɪlə/ kə-MIL-ə Latin (possibly Etruscan) "acolyte" (young cult officiant); a Latin cognomen |
Camilla is a feminine given name. The French variant Camille may be either masculine or feminine. The Portuguese and Spanish variant is spelled Camila.
It ultimately originates as the feminine of camillus, a term for a youth serving as acolyte in the ritual of ancient Roman religion, which may ultimately be of Etruscan origin.
The name Camillo is the Italian male version of Camilla. Camillus came to be used as a cognomen in Rome, and Camilla would be the feminine form of this cognomen from a period when cognomina had become hereditary clan names. The most notable bearer of this name in Roman history is Marcus Furius Camillus (ca. 446 – 365 BC), who according to Livy and Plutarch, triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of "Second Founder of Rome". In the Aeneid, Camilla was the name of a princess of the Volsci who was given as a servant to the goddess Diana and raised as a "warrior virgin" of the Amazon type.
In the English-speaking world, the name was popularized Fanny Burney's novel Camilla of 1796. The form Camille was later associated with the heroine of Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias (1848), which served as the basis for Verdi's opera La Traviata and several films. In Dumas' novel, Camille is not the given name of the heroine; this name was applied to her in derived works in the English-speaking world, presumably due to the similarity in sound to the floral name Camellia (which was coined by Linnaeus (1753) after the name of the Czech Jesuit missionary Georg Joseph Kamel). The name Camille was given to the heroine as early as in a silent film of 1915, but it became widely known (and led to an increased popularity of the given name in the United States) with Greta Garbo's Camille of 1936.
Hypocorisms of the name include "Milly", "Millie", and "Mille".
Camila Cabello (born 1997), singer-songwriter and Fifth Harmony member
Camilla Collett (1813–1895), Norwegian feminist.
Camilla Odhnoff (1928–2013), Swedish politician
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (born 1947), wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Camilla Henemark (born 1964), Swedish singer
Camilla Long (born 1978), journalist for The Sunday Times
Camilla Cavendish (born 1968), journalist, currently heading No 10 Policy Unit
Camilla Crociani (born 1971), wife of Prince Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro
Camilla Dallerup (born 1974), British-based Danish ballroom dancer
Camila Pitanga (born 1977), Brazilian film and television actress
Camilla D'Errico, Italian-Canadian visual artist
Camila Alves (born 1982), Brazilian-American model and designer
Camila Bordonaba (born 1984), Argentinian actress and musician
Camilla Belle (born 1986), American actress
Camilla Marie Beeput (born 1984), British singer
Camila Giorgi (born 1991), Italian tennis player
Camila Silva (born 1992), Chilean tennis player
Camila Vezzoso (born 1993), Uruguayan model crowned Miss Uruguay 2012
Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), a French journalist and revolutionary
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), a French painter
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), a French impressionist painter
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), French composer
Camille Jordan (born 1838), a French mathematician
Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), a French astronomer and author
Camille Sée (1847–1919), a French politician
Camille Chamoun (1900–1987), a former president of Lebanon
Camille Huard (born 1951), a French-Canadian boxer
Camille Lacourt (born 1985), a French swimmer
Camille Claudel (1864–1943), a French female sculptor
Camille Cosby, American philanthropist
Camille Paglia (born 1947), an American author
Camille Dalmais (born 1978), a French singer and musician, better known as Camille
Camille Anderson (born 1981), an American actress and model
Camille O'Sullivan (born 1970), a French-Irish cabaret singer traveling with the Spiegeltent
Camille Muffat (1989-2015), a French swimmer
Camille Pin (born 1981), a French tennis player
Camille Munro (born 1991), Miss World Canada winner
Camille Kitt, actress and identical twin of Kennerly Kitt. Also known as The "Harp Twins."
Camille De Pazzis, a French actress
Camille Catala, a French football player
Camille Grammer, a reality television star
Greta Garbo's Camille (1936)
Camilla (muppet), the Muppet
Princess Camille, protagonist of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Camille, the main villainess in Power Rangers Jungle Fury
Camille Montes, the lead Bond girl in the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace
Camille, a pseudonym used by Prince during the late 1980s and early 1990s
Camille Leon, a fictional shapeshifting character from Kim Possible portrayed by Ashley Tisdale
Camille Saroyan, character of the TV series Bones
Camille the Wood Elf, Character of Troll Tales
Camilla (Castlevania), one of Dracula's servants in the Castlevania series
Camille Bordey, a detective sergeant in the BBC series Death In Paradise
Camilla Gevert, fictional character in the Bert Diaries
Camille, a main character in the French series Les Revenants
Camilla Macaulay, fictional character in the novel The Secret History
Kamille Bidan, the protagonist of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Camille, character in League of Legends
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