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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". ==List of people with the given name Camilla== * 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camilla (given name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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