Celia vs Cecilia - What's the difference?
celia | cecilia | Related terms |
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* : Act I: Scene III:
*:: No longer Celia , but Aliena.
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* 1694 (Joseph Addison), A Song for St. Cecilia's Day :
* 1854 (Charles Dickens), :
* 1928 Lynn Montross, Silent Minstrel , in (American Magazine), Vol. 106, page 14:
Cecilia is a related term of celia.
As proper nouns the difference between celia and cecilia
is that celia is {{given name|female|from=Latin}} while Cecilia is {{given name|female|from=Latin|}}.celia
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Rosalind : - - - But what will you be called?
- Celia : Something that hath a reference to my state:
Anagrams
* * ----cecilia
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Hark how the flutes and trumpets raise / At bright Cecilia' s name, their lays!
- ‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia'.’ ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey. ‘Then he has no business to do it,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Tell him he mustn’t. ' Cecilia Jupe. Let me see. What is your father?’
- Because they had named her Cecilia , her parents fancied that the matter of her life and character had been fairly well settled. She would, of course, be quiet and pale and mystical, like the saint whose picture hung above the old upright piano in the Kirby living-room.