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in reply to a message by robbye
Where was your mother born? What is her ethnic background? How is this name pronounced? Are your grandparents still living so you can ask them why they chose it?
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my mother born in italy her parents same thing..
the name has been chosen by her older brother,,
he say that he had found the name on a fable book for children,....
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DEE-LEE-A
robbye
the name has been chosen by her older brother,,
he say that he had found the name on a fable book for children,....
spelling
DEE-LEE-A
robbye
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My Italian name dictionary (Santi e Fanti by Enzo La Stella T.) says that Dìlio is a short form of Edìlio. The origin of Edìlio is uncertain, but La Stella says it's possibly from Latin aedilis (a title of an elected official in ancient Rome), or possibly just a diminutive of Germanic names starting with Ed- such as Edwin. Since in Italian it is normal to turn a male name ending in -o to a female name by changing the -o to -a, I would assume that Dìlia is the feminine form of Dìlio.
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