Claudia

See also: Cláudia

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈklɔː.di.ə/, /ˈklaʊ.di.ə/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Homophone: cloudier (second pronunciation only)

Proper noun

Claudia

  1. A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Claudius.
    • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt [] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 2 Timothy iiij:[21], folio cclxxxij, verso:
      Make ſpede to come befoꝛe winter. Eubolus gretith the / and Pudes / and Linus / and Claudia / and all the bꝛethꝛen.
    • 1987, Penelope Lively, chapter 4, in Moon Tiger, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 45:
      Claudia is really Mummy, but she does not like being Mummy so you have to say Claudia. [] Lisa is a better name. Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh. Bang – whoom! Lisa makes a nice silky noise, like streams or rain.
    • 2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 1 June 2024:
      Mexico’s presidential campaign is well underway and if the polls are to be believed, Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and candidate of the left-leaning ruling Morena party, could be the country’s next president.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch claudia, from Latin Claudia, feminine form of Claudius.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklɑu̯.di.aː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Clau‧dia

Proper noun

Claudia f

  1. a female given name

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klo.dja/
  • Audio (France):(file)

Proper noun

Claudia f

  1. a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Claudie

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Claudia

  1. a female given name from Latin Claudia, popular from the 1960s to the 1980s

Indonesian

Etymology

From Latin Claudia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklau̯di(j)a/, /-dj-/

Proper noun

Claudia

  1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Claudia
    Claudia Scheunemann, b. 2009

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklaw.dja/
  • Rhymes: -awdja
  • Hyphenation: Clàu‧dia

Proper noun

Claudia f

  1. a female given name from Latin of Latin origin, feminine form of Claudio

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Claudius.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Claudia f (genitive Claudiae, masculine Claudius); first declension

  1. A feminine praenomen.
  2. A patrician gens in Ancient Rome.
  3. A nomen for women of the gens.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Claudia Claudiae
genitive Claudiae Claudiārum
dative Claudiae Claudiīs
accusative Claudiam Claudiās
ablative Claudiā Claudiīs
vocative Claudia Claudiae

Descendants

  • Spanish: Claudia

References

  • Claudĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Claudĭa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 324/3.

Spanish

Etymology

From the Latin Claudia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklaudja/ [ˈklau̯.ð̞ja]
  • Rhymes: -audja
  • Syllabification: Clau‧dia

Proper noun

Claudia f

  1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Claudia