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[Carolm]

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?

[qbetzforreal]

Aemilum is most likely Latin, not Italian.

[bmorechick]

Google it...

[Carolm]

@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.

[Mindy D]

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@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?

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@Carolm @It means Emilia. Could be Emilio.

[qbetzforreal]

@Carolm  Was your father Catholic?  Perhaps contacting your local parish may get you an answer.

[Foxxee]

Sounds Latin to me, probably used in Italy and possibly Greece.  

[Carolm]

@Mindy D - Thank you so much.  I suspect mystery is solved.

[qbetzforreal]

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@Mindy D wrote:

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@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?

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@Carolm @It means Emilia. Could be Emilio.

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@CarolmYes, using Google Translate, Emilia comes up.

[chickenbutt]

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.