Cynthia
WordNet
noun
(1) (Greek mythology) the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana
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Etymology
From an epithet of the moon goddess Artemis ( Diana), "from the Mount Kynthos( on Delos island)"
Quotations
- 1601 Ben Jonson: Hymn to Diana:
- Cynthia's shining orb was made
- 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.