Claudia

See also: Cláudia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈklɔː.di.ə/, /ˈklaʊ.di.ə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: cloudier (second pronunciation only)

Proper noun

Claudia

1. A female given name from Latin, feminine form of 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.

Translations

female given name

• Catalan: Clàudia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克勞迪婭／克劳迪娅 (Kèláodíyà)

• Czech: Klaudie (cs)
• French: Claudie (fr)
• German: Claudia (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Κλαυδία f (Klaudía)

• Italian: Claudia (it)
• Latvian: Klaudija f
• Polish: Klaudia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cláudia (pt) f
• Russian: Кла́вдия (ru) f (Klávdija) (cognate)
• Spanish: Claudia (es)

Anagrams

• aulacid

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɑu̯.di.aː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Clau‧dia

Proper noun

Claudia f

1. a female given name

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klo.dja/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Claudia f

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

Anagrams

• acidula

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Claudia

1. a female given name from Latin, popular from the 1960s to the 1980s, from the Latin feminine form of Claudius

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

• acidula, caudali

Latin

Etymology

From Claudius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯.di.a/, [ˈkɫ̪äu̯d̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯.di.a/, [ˈkläːu̯d̪iä]

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

Related terms

• Claudio