Cynthia vs Diana - What's the difference?
cynthia | diana |
(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 , Hymn to Diana :
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* 1866 , Wives and Daughters , Chapter 10:
* 1978 , The Human Factor , ISBN 0671240854, page 59:
(Roman god) The daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis.
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(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
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* 1605 , Remains Concerning Britain , John Russell Smith, 1870, page 56:
* 1993 , Queens Have Died Young and Fair , P. Owen, ISBN 0720608864, page 94:
Diana is a synonym of cynthia.
As proper nouns the difference between cynthia and diana
is that cynthia is the moon, personified while Diana is the daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis.cynthia
English
(wikipedia Cynthia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Cynthia' s shining orb was made / Heaven to clear when day did close[...].
- "Cynthia seems to me such an out-of-the-way name, only fit for poetry, not for daily use."
- 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.
Usage notes
* Popular given name in the U.S.A. in the 1950s and the 1960s.diana
English
(wikipedia Diana)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and all the world worshippeth.
- But succeeding ages (little regarding S. Chrysosthome's admonition to the contrary) have recalled prophane names, so as now Diana , Cassandra, Hyppolytus, Venus, Lais, names of unhappy disaster are as rife, as ever they were in paganism.
- A wholesome British name like Diana , Anne, Margaret or Elizabeth impresses a judge much more than all your vulgar Marilyns, Donnas, Madonnas and Dawns.