Rosalia

A Rose
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	"rose" or "rose festival"
Other names
Related names	Rosa, Rosalie, Rosie, Rosalina

Rosalia is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning " rose" and was the name of an early saint Saint Rosalia. ^[1] In Latin, the Rosalia was a festival of roses celebrated variously throughout the Roman Empire.

Variants

• Rosalia or Lia ( Italian)
• Rosália ( Portuguese)
• Rosalía ( Galician and Spanish)
• Rosalia or Lia ( Catalan)
• Rosalie ( French)
• Rozália ( Hungarian)
• Rozalia ( Polish)
• Rozalija ( Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovene and Croatian)
• Zala ( Slovene)

Notable people

• Rosalía Arteaga (born 1956), Ecuadorian politician
• Rosalia Lombardo (1918–1920), Italian child famous for her well-preserved mummy
• Rosalía Mera (1944–2013), Spanish billionaire businesswoman
• Rosalia Price (fl. 1790), British circus artist
• Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), Spanish romanticist writer
• Rosalía (singer) (born 1992), Spanish singer
• Saint Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo in Italy

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