Felicia vs Ida - What's the difference?
felicia | ida |
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* 1809 , Woman, or, Ida of Athens , p.127:
* 1938 (Graham Greene), Brighton Rock , Compact Books 1993, ISBN 0749317256, page 16:
* 2002 (Joyce Carol Oates), I'l Take You There , Fourth Estate 2003, ISBN 0007146442, page 18:
(greekmyth) Name of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.
As proper nouns the difference between felicia and ida
is that felicia is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}, feminine form of Felix while Ida is {{given name|female|from=Germanic}}.ida
English
Etymology 1
Short form of obsolete names beginning with Germanic ?d "work", used for both sexes in medieval England. It was revived in the 19th century, partly mistaken for a Greek name, for the Mount Ida of classical mythology.Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Ida !!!"
- "It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos."
- Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida ".
- "That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida ." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity.
- "Ida'" - the name was magical to me. In whispers, in the dark. Beneath bedcovers. Forehead pressed to a windowpane coated with frost. "'''Ida'''". What a strange, beautiful name: I could not say it often enough: it was easy to confuse "' Ida " with "I" - - -
