Della, DELIA, ADELA

Della

Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DEL-a

Short form of ADELA or a variant of DELIA

ADELA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English Spanish
Pronounced: a-DEL-a

Originally a short form of names beginning with the Germanic element adal meaning "noble". Saint Adela was a 7th-century Frankish princess who founded a monastery at Pfazel in France. This name was also borne by a daughter of William the Conqueror.


DELIA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English Italian

Means "of Delos" in Greek. This was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis, given because she and her twin brother Apollo were born on the island of Delos.