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.

• 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 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]
• (modern Italianate 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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ti.a/, [ˈt͡ʃin̪t̪iä]

Cynthia

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

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

Cynthiā

1. ablative feminine singular of Cynthius

Cynthia f

1. alternative spelling of Cíntia

Borrowed from English Cynthia.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsintia/ [ˈsin.t͡ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -intia
• Syllabification: Cyn‧thi‧a

Cynthia (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜌ)

1. a female given name from English