Cynthia

• Cinthia, Cinthya, Cintia, Cintya, Cynthea, Cyntheia, Cynthya, Sinthia, Sintia, Synthea, Synthia, Syntia

Borrowed from Latin Cynthia, from Ancient Greek Κυνθία (Kunthía), feminine of Κύνθιος (Kúnthios, “Cynthian (of or pertaining to Mount Cynthus, a mountain of Delos, celebrated as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis)”).

• enPR: sĭnʹthē-ə, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnθiə/^[1]

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• Hyphenation: Cyn‧thi‧a^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɪnθiə

Cynthia (plural Cynthias)

1. Artemis (Greek goddess).^[1]

   Synonym: Delia

2. (literary) The Moon.^[1]

   Synonyms: Luna, Selene

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     As when faire Cynthia, in darkesome night, / Is in a noyous cloud enveloped [...].

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Hymn to Diana:

     [...] Cynthia's shining orb was made / Heav'n to clear when day did close [...].

3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.^[1]
   • 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 10, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:

     “Cynthia seems to me such an out-of-the-way name, only fit for poetry, not for daily use.”

   • 1978, Graham Greene, The Human Factor, →ISBN, page 59:

     Cynthia, the domestic-minded, looked as dashing as a young commando. It was a pity that her spelling was so bad, but perhaps there was something Elizabethan about her spelling as well as about her name.

   • 1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:

     Her twin daughters were on the playground equipment. Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them.

   • 2021 June 10, Iona Cable, ““Women And Children”: The Role Of Innocence In Human Rights Reporting”, in Human Rights Pulse‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2024:

     This hierarchisation of deaths has been challenged by gender scholars, with Cynthia Enloe coining the notion of “womenandchildren” in her 1990 text "Bananas, Beaches and Bases" to critique the use of this abstract category.

• Popular given name in the US in the 1950s and the 1960s.

• Cynthus
• Cynthian

Borrowed from English Cynthia.

Cynthia

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cynthia.

• Cynthie (archaic)

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Cynthia f

1. Cynthia

• Cynthe
• cynthien

Borrowed from English Cynthia, from Latin Cynthia.

• IPA^(key): /sinˈti(j)a/

Cynthia

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Latin]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κυνθία (Kunthía, feminine of Κύνθιος (Kúnthios, “Cynthian”, of or pertaining to Mount Cynthus, a mountain of Delos, celebrated as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis)); morphologically Cynthus (“Cynthus”) +‎ -ia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkyn.tʰi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃin̪.t̪i.a]

Cynthia f (genitive Cynthiae); first declension

1. Artemis (Greek goddess) identified with Diana (Roman goddess)^[1]

   Synonym: Dēlia

2. (poetic)^[2] the moon^[3][2]
3. a female given name from Ancient Greek^[4]
4. Delos^[4]

First-declension noun.

• Cynthius

• French: Cynthia
• → English: Cynthia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkyn.tʰi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃin̪.t̪i.a]

Cynthia

1. inflection of Cynthius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkyn.tʰi.aː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃin̪.t̪i.a]

Cynthiā

1. ablative feminine singular of Cynthius

Cynthia f

1. alternative spelling of Cíntia

Borrowed from English Cynthia.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsintia/ [ˈsin̪.t͡ʃɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈsintia/ [ˈsin̪.t̪jɐ]
• Rhymes: -intia
• Syllabification: Cyn‧thi‧a

Cynthia (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜌ)

1. a female given name from English