Aurelia

Au·re·lia

a feminine name

Origin of Aurelia

L, literally , golden from aurum, gold: see east

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Noun

(plural aurelias)

(entomology) A chrysalis.

Proper noun

A female given name.

Origin

From Latin Aurelia, the feminine form of the Roman gens name Aurelius, from aureus (“golden”).

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Along the west coast the Via Aurelia ran up to Pisa and was continued by another Via Aemiia to Genoa.
A similar ocellus is formed in Aurelia among the Scyphomedusae (q.v.).
Of Rome by rail, on the Via Aurelia, by which it is about 22 m.
By the lex Aurelia (70 B.C.) the list of judices was composed, in addition to senators and equites, of tribuni aerarii.
His mother, Aurelia, belonged to a distinguished family, and Tacitus (Dial.

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