Virginia (first name)

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Virginia is a female given name .

Origin and meaning of the name

The ancient Roman gender name Verginius (newer spelling Virginius ), the meaning of which is open, lives on in this first name. In Latin , the adjectives virgineus, virgina, virginum mean virginal; virgo means virgin . The first name can therefore be interpreted as the virgin .

Verginia , the daughter of Decimus Verginius , was stabbed to death by him to put an end to the pursuits of Appius Claudius . This tragic story has already produced in ancient times rise to literary and musical processing and also was a template for the bourgeois tragedy Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .

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