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01-01-2021 06:22 PM - edited 01-01-2021 06:43 PM
I recently located my father's baptismal records online and I was surprised that his name was listed as Aemilum Joseph (last name). I have never heard Aemilum and I am not sure whether it is supposed to be his first name or whether it has some other meaning. There is no one left alive in my family to ask and I have done some research and think it may be an old, old Italian (or Roman) name. Any ideas?
01-01-2021 06:29 PM
Aemilum is most likely Latin, not Italian.
01-01-2021 06:31 PM
Google it...
01-01-2021 06:40 PM
@bmorechick - i have googled it with little success. I did see that it was the middle word for the name of a publishing company.
@qbetzforreal - I agree that it is probably Latin which I referred to as old Roman. I wondered if it was somehow part of the process of being baptized in the Catholic faith.
01-01-2021 06:42 PM
@Carolm wrote:I recently located my father's baptismal records online and I was surprised that his name was listed as Aemilum Joseph (last name). I have never heard Aemilum and I am not sure whether it is supposed to be his first name or whether it has some other meaning. There is no one left alive in my family to ask and I have done some research and think it may be an old, old Italian (or Roman) name. Any ideas?
@Carolm @It means Emilia. Could be Emilio.
01-01-2021 06:42 PM
@Carolm Was your father Catholic? Perhaps contacting your local parish may get you an answer.
01-01-2021 06:43 PM
Sounds Latin to me, probably used in Italy and possibly Greece.
01-01-2021 06:46 PM
@Mindy D - Thank you so much. I suspect mystery is solved.
01-01-2021 06:51 PM
@Mindy D wrote:
@Carolm wrote:I recently located my father's baptismal records online and I was surprised that his name was listed as Aemilum Joseph (last name). I have never heard Aemilum and I am not sure whether it is supposed to be his first name or whether it has some other meaning. There is no one left alive in my family to ask and I have done some research and think it may be an old, old Italian (or Roman) name. Any ideas?
@Carolm @It means Emilia. Could be Emilio.
@CarolmYes, using Google Translate, Emilia comes up.
01-01-2021 06:52 PM
My Latin doesn't go beyond having to learn to read prescriptions in the 70s/80s.
One thing I have done from time to time to find out what a word means in one language or another is to Google - Latin to English - (put the word here).
Example: Spanish to English - mesa
Hit enter and you get the answer - table
HTH
You can also do it backwards, eg: English to Spanish - table, and you'll get the response mesa.
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