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 960102938:

     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 83344188:

     “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.

• 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)

Cynthia f

1. Cynthia

• Cynthe
• cynthien

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) IPA^(key): /ˈkyn.tʰi.a/, [ˈkʏn̪t̪ʰiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ti.a/, [ˈt͡ʃin̪t̪iä]

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) IPA^(key): /ˈkyn.tʰi.a/, [ˈkʏn̪t̪ʰiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ti.a/, [ˈt͡ʃin̪t̪iä]

Cynthia

1. nominative feminine singular of Cynthius
2. nominative neuter plural of Cynthius
3. accusative neuter plural of Cynthius
4. vocative feminine singular of Cynthius
5. vocative neuter plural of Cynthius

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkyn.tʰi.aː/, [ˈkʏn̪t̪ʰiäː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ti.a/, [ˈt͡ʃin̪t̪iä]

Cynthiā

1. ablative feminine singular of Cynthius

Cynthia f

1. alternative spelling of Cíntia

From English Cynthia.

• Hyphenation: Cyn‧thia

Cynthia

1. a female given name from English