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Gloria
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gloria glória Glória glòria gloría Gloría gloriá glorią Glorią
English
Etymology
From en la gloria glory, first used as a name in 19th-century literature.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡlɔɹ.i.ə/ US
en /ˈɡlɔːɹ.ɪ.ə/ /ˈɡlɔːɹ.iː.ə/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Gloria.wav Southern England
Proper noun
s
en female Latin during the first half of the 20th century.
en 1835 Jacobus Flax: The Knickerbocker October 291 Miss Flax, the little thin sister, and Miss Gloria, the stout able-bodied sister, lifted up their hands and eyes in horror at the mere hint of a wet nurse.
en 1898 w:George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell act II Crampton. What's your name? I mean your pet name. They can't very well call you Sophronia.Gloria. Sophronia! My name is Gloria. I am always called by it.Crampton. Your name is Sophronia, girl: you were called after your aunt Sophronia, my sister: she gave you your first Bible with your name written in it.Gloria: Then my mother gave me a new name.
en Christianity The Gloria in excelsis Deo, a hymn sung during the liturgy of many churches.
en F. A. V Marion Howard; or Trials and Triumphs Philadelphia Peter F. Cunningham,Catholic Bookseller, 216 South Third Street. 1872 100 “What did the priest, and all of you, keep on saying when we first went in?” / “Our Fathers, Hail Maries, and Glorias; couldn’t you hear?” asked Emily, laughing. / “No, I should think not, you rattled on so fast- What are Hail Maries and Glorias?” / “The Gloria you know well enough, my dear, because you say it in your church at the end of every psalm,” replied Miss Horton; “the Hail Mary is a prayer to our Blessed Lady,” and she repeated it.
Derived terms
en Gloriagate
en Named prayers
Cebuano
Etymology 1
From ceb es Gloria, from ceb la glōria.
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb female Latin
Etymology 2
From en w:Gloria in excelsis Deo Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb Christianity the en Gloria; the Greater Doxology
Quotations
ceb
Faroese
Proper noun
fo proper noun
fo female Gloria
Usage notes
f Gloriuson Gloriudóttir
Declension
Gloria Gloriu Gloriu Gloriu
Italian
Etymology
it :inh la:Glōria
it la Glōria.
Pronunciation
Glòria
Proper noun
f
it female Gloria
Anagrams
it agilor algori giralo graoli raglio ragliò riloga
Polish
pl:+
Etymology
pl :lbor la:Glōria + 1
Pronunciation
gloria
Proper noun
f
pl countable pl female Latin Gloria
pl uncountable pl Christianity Gloria in excelsis Deo hymn sung during the liturgy of many churches
Declension
Further reading
pl Named prayers
Spanish
Etymology
es :inh la:Glōria + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es female Gloria
Tagalog
Etymology
tl es Gloria, from tl la glōria.
Pronunciation
glorya
Proper noun
glorya
tl female Latin
Related terms
tl glorya
Anagrams
tl agilor rigalo