Filomena is a form of the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
female given name
Philomena
Philomena ( ), also known as Saint Philomena (; ) or Philomena of Rome ( 10 January 291 10 August 304) was a virgin (title)#Virgin martyrs, virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on May 24–25, 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three ti ...
. It means "friend of strength" (φίλος : ''phílos'' "friend, lover" and μένος : ''ménos'' "mind, purpose, strength, courage") or "loved one" (φιλουμένη : ''philouménē'' meaning "loved").
Filomena is the name of one of the storytellers in the
frame story
A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either fo ...
of ''
The Decameron
''The Decameron'' (; or ''Decamerone'' ), subtitled ''Prince Galehaut'' (Old ) and sometimes nicknamed ''l'Umana commedia'' ("the Human Comedy (drama), comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy, Comedy'' "''D ...
''.
People with the name Filomena
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Filomena Barros Dos Reis, East Timorese activist
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Filomena Campus, Italian singer
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Filomena Cautela
Filomena José Dias Fernandes Cautela (born 16 December 1984) is a Portuguese television presenter and actress. Cautela started her acting career in the theatre in the year 2000. In 2004, she made her debut in cinema, and in 2005, she was cast as ...
, Portuguese presenter
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Filomena Costa, Portuguese runner
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Filomena Dato, Spanish writer
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Filomena Delli Castelli, Italian politician
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Filomena Embaló
Filomena Araújo Embaló (born 1956) is an Angolan-born Bissau-Guinean writer. She is the first woman in Guinea-Bissau to have published a novel.
Biography
Filomena Embaló was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1956 to parents from Cape Verde. She mo ...
, Bissau-Guinean writer
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Filomena Fortes, Cape Verdean sports administrator and handball player
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Filomena Linčiūtė-Vaitiekūnienė, Lithuanian artist
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Filomena Margaiz, Mexican politician
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Filomena Moretti, Italian guitarist
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Filomena Rotiroti
Filomena Rotiroti (born May 17, 1974) is a Canadian politician. Rotiroti was elected to represent the riding of Jeanne-Mance–Viger in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. She was re-elected in 2012, 2014, 2018, an ...
, Canadian politician
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Filomena Tassi
Filomena Tassi is a Canadian politician who served as the Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario from 2022 to 2024. A member of the Liberal Party, Tassi represented the riding of Hamilton West� ...
, Canadian politician
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Filomena Mascarenhas Tipote, Bissau-Guinean politician
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Filomena Trindade
Filomena José Trindade, a.k.a. Filó (born 26 September 1971) is am Angolan retired female handball player. Filó was a member of the Angola women's handball team. At club level, she excelled at Angolan side Petro Atlético, a club with which s ...
, Angolan handball player
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Filomena Valenzuela Goyenechea, Chilean soldier
See also
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Philomena (given name) Philomena was a young woman believed by some to have been a Christian martyr.
Other people named Philomena include:
*Petrus de Dacia (mathematician), 13th-century Danish mathematician also called Philomena
*Philomena Begley (born 1950), Irish coun ...
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Storm Filomena
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Filomena (disambiguation)
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