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Lavinia

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. Lavinia (noun)
  2. Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (geographical name)

La·vin·ia

noun \lə-ˈvi-nē-ə\

Definition of LAVINIA

: a daughter of King Latinus in Virgil's Aeneid who is betrothed to Turnus but marries Aeneas

Origin of LAVINIA

Latin
First Known Use: 1513

Rhymes with LAVINIA

Bithynia, Gdynia, gloxinia, Mordvinia, Sardinia, vaccinia, Virginia

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