Comments (Meaning / History Only)

According to K. M. Sheard (in Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names), it's possibly connected to "herse," meaning "dew". The -ilia on the end is a diminutive meaning "little". [noted -ed]
Hersilia was, like her husband, deified after her death.

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