"Variant of Amaryllis"
The name Amarilis is commonly a female name from the "Greek" origin.
Amarilis is a variant spelling of Amaryllis, the name of a shepherdess in Theocritus's Idylls and in Virgil's first Eclogue. The Greek form is Ἀμαρυλλίς, related to the verb ἀμαρύσσω, which Liddell and Scott gloss as to sparkle or flash. The Amarilis spelling, without the y, is the usual one in Spanish and Portuguese, which is the form the name has generally taken in the Americas.
Amaryllis means "Fresh stream.".
The pronunciation of Amarilis is am-uh-RIL-is.
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