The Art of Literary Nomenclature

ORIGIN:
From Hebrew, meaning “devoted to the Lord”.

VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Lem, Lemmie, Lemmy.

REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Lemuel Homer, the gentlemanly scholar who escorts his wife and Misses Ethel Amory and Jane Bassett around Europe, in “Poppies and Wheat”, from A Garland for Girls, by Louisa May Alcott, 1887.

Tagged: 1880s, English, Hebrew, L

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