Camilla
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The name Camilla, originates from Latin meaning attendant. It derives originally from a term designating attendants in Roman religious ceremonies. In the nineteenth century it gained its greatest fame as a result of the novel and play by Dumas, The Lady of the Camellias, which served as the basis for Verdi's opera La Traviata and, still later, for one of Greta Garbo's memorable film roles, in Camille (1936). It is a pet name and not the given name of the heroine, and the Latin root has no relation to the flower that is her symbol. The flower Camellia, was named for Georg Joseph Kamel, who first described it in the Eighteenth Century.
Variations of the name include: Camella, Camila, Camilah, Camile, Camille, Kamila, Kamilah, Kamilla, and Kamille.
People and things named Camilla include:
- Camilla (Castlevania), one of Dracula's servants in the Castlevania series
- Camilla (film), from 1994
- Camilla, the Muppet
- Camilla (mythology), the Roman mythological figure who was the daughter of King Metabus of the Volsci and a character in Virgil's Aeneid
- Camilla (play), by G. Jemison
- Camilla Belle, an American actress
- Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
- Camilla, Georgia, a city in the U.S.
- 107 Camilla, the asteroid
- Camilla Severi, runner-up in Australia's Big Brother who made headlines over the 'turkey slapping' incident
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