Cynthia
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From an Ancient Greek epithet of the moon goddess Artemis, from the Mount Κύνθος (Cynthus), on Delos island, the center of her worship.
Proper noun [edit]
Cynthia
- (poetic) The moon, personified.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- 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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- A female given name.
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- Heaven to clear when day did close.
- 1866 Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 10:
- "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 0671240854, 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.
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