The Italian word that gives the meaning of this name is used in an Aria in the opera Aida by Giuseppe Vedri. The aria is Celeste Aida meaning heavenly Aida. I like the name because I like the aria, and because my father and grandfather also liked this aria.
Clay is a male MudWing, a Dragonet of Destiny, and the main protagonist in The Dragonet Prophecy, the very first book of the Wings of Fire series. Clay has fire-resistant scales, which he found out about when he pushed Peril down a tunnel as he tried to hide her from Queen Scarlet.
mud; clay. Hypernyms (mud is a kind of...): dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of mud): bleaching clay; bleaching earth (an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils) mud pie (a mass of mud that a child has molded into the shape of pie) mire; slop (deep soft mud in water or slush)