# Gloria
## English
### Etymology

From Latin gloria (“glory”), first used as a name in 19th-century literature.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈɡlɔɹ.i.ə/
* (UK) IPA: /ˈɡlɔːɹ.ɪ.ə/, /ˈɡlɔːɹ.iː.ə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Proper noun

Gloria (plural Glorias)
* A female given name from Latin, popular during the first half of the 20th century.
** 1835 October, Jacobus Flax: The Knickerbocker, page 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.
** 1898, 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.
* (Christianity) The Gloria in excelsis Deo, a hymn sung during the liturgy of many churches.
** 1872, F. A., chapter V, in Marion Howard; or Trials and Triumphs, Philadelphia: Peter F. Cunningham, […], page 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.

## Cebuano
### Etymology 1

From Spanish Gloria, from Latin glōria.

#### Proper noun

Gloria
* a female given name from Latin

### Etymology 2

From Gloria in excelsis Deo.

#### Proper noun

Gloria
* (Christianity) the Gloria; the Greater Doxology

### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gloria.

## Faroese
### Proper noun

Gloria
* a female given name, equivalent to English Gloria

#### Usage notes

Matronymics
* son of Gloria: Gloriuson
* daughter of Gloria: Gloriudóttir

#### Declension
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡlɔ.rja/
* Rhymes: -ɔrja
* Hyphenation: Glò‧ria

### Proper noun

Gloria f
* a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Gloria

### Anagrams

* algori, giralo, graoli, raglio, ragliò, riloga

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Glōria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡlɔ.rja/
* Rhymes: -ɔrja
* Syllabification: Glo‧ria
* Homophone: gloria

### Proper noun

Gloria f
* (countable) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Gloria
* (uncountable) (Christianity) Gloria in excelsis Deo (hymn sung during the liturgy of many churches)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Gloria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡloɾja/ [ˈɡlo.ɾja]
* Rhymes: -oɾja
* Syllabification: Glo‧ria

### Proper noun

Gloria f
* a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Gloria

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Gloria, from Latin glōria.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈɡloɾja/ [ˈɡloɾ.jɐ]
* Rhymes: -oɾja
* Syllabification: Glor‧ia
* Homophone: glorya

### Proper noun

Gloria (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜎᜓᜇ᜔ᜌ)
* a female given name from Latin

#### Related terms

* glorya

### Anagrams

* rigalo