FromLatingloria(“glory”), first used as a name in 19th-century literature.
Gloria (pluralGlorias)
- A femalegiven name from Latin, popular during the first half of the 20th century.
1835 October,Jacobus Flax:The Knickerbocker, page291:Miss Flax, the little thin sister, and MissGloria, the stout able-bodied sister, lifted up their hands and eyes in horror at the mere hint of a wet nurse.
1898,George Bernard Shaw,You Never Can Tell, act II:Crampton.[…] What's your name? I mean your pet name. They can't very well call you Sophronia.
Gloria. Sophronia! My name isGloria. I am always called by it.
Crampton. Your name is Sophronia, girl: you were called after your aunt Sophronia, my sister: she gave you your first Bible with your name written in it.
Gloria: Then my mother gave me a new name.
- (Christianity) TheGloria in excelsis Deo, ahymn sung during theliturgy of many churches.
1872,F. A., chapter V, inMarion Howard; or Trials and Triumphs, Philadelphia: Peter F. Cunningham, […], page100:“What did the priest, and all of you, keep on saying when we first went in?” / “Our Fathers, Hail Maries, andGlorias; couldn’t you hear?” asked Emily, laughing. / “No, I should think not, you rattled on so fast- What are Hail Maries andGlorias?” / “TheGloria you know well enough, my dear, because you say it in your church at the end of every psalm,” replied Miss Horton; “the Hail Mary is a prayer to our Blessed Lady,” and she repeated it.
FromSpanishGloria, fromLatinglōria.
Gloria
- a femalegiven name from Latin
FromGloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria
- (Christianity) theGloria; theGreater Doxology
For quotations using this term, seeCitations:Gloria.
Gloria
- a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishGloria
Matronymics
- son of Gloria:Gloriuson
- daughter of Gloria:Gloriudóttir
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Gloria f
- a femalegiven name from Latin, equivalent to EnglishGloria
Learned borrowing fromLatinGlōria.
Gloria f
- (countable)a femalegiven name from Latin, equivalent to EnglishGloria
- (uncountable)(Christianity)Gloria in excelsis Deo(hymn sung during the liturgy of many churches)
- Gloria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- IPA(key): /ˈɡloɾja/[ˈɡlo.ɾja]
- Rhymes:-oɾja
- Syllabification:Glo‧ria
Gloria f
- a femalegiven name from Latin, equivalent to EnglishGloria
Borrowed fromSpanishGloria, fromLatinglōria.
Gloria (Baybayin spellingᜄ᜔ᜎᜓᜇ᜔ᜌ)
- a femalegiven name from Latin
