emerentiana
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Latin, of rare usage.
Example Sentences
- "Miss Emerentiana Frith, a resident of the eastern section of Brooklyn for sixty years, died Saturday of old age at her home, 763 Marcy avenue. […] Miss Frith was born in Devonshire, England, January 5, eighty-six years ago."
- "Following the ceremony, breakfast for the immediate family was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Denver Daily, 1107 N. Sixth. Mrs. Kermit Kiefer and Miss Emerentiana Barthelme served."
- "The former Margaret Burg, she was born July 23, 1875, at Caledonia, Minn., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burg. […] She is survived by eight children, Vincent, of Cedar Rapids, Adele, Ferd, Wilfred, Leo and Arnold, of Ossian, Emerentiana, of Rochester, Minn., and Quintin, of Chicago; […]"
- "Sister Mary Margaret (Ida), daughter of Peter and Anna Marie Schmelzer Linenberger was born in Victoria [Kansas], October 11, 1896. […] Surviving Sister Mary Margaret are two sisters, Mrs. Emerentiana Denning, Red Bluffs, California; Mrs. Philomene Norton, Park, Kansas."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Ēmerentiāna, feminine of Ēmerentiānus, from Ēmerentius + -ānus, from ēmereō (“to earn, merit, gain by service”). By surface analysis, Emerentia + -ana.