Cynthia vs Isabella - What's the difference?
cynthia | isabella |
(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:
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* : Act I, Scene V:
* 1857 Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England , Vol. 3, page 2 ("Elizabeth, eighth daughter of Edward I"):
*:A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella ; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth.
As a proper noun cynthia
is (poetic) the moon, personified.As a noun isabella is
a brownish-yellow colour.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.isabella
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Can you so stead me,
- As bring me to the sight of Isabella ,
- A novice of this place, and the fair sister
- To her unhappy brother Claudio?