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.

• 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