Cynthia – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Cynthia
n.
female first name
Cynthia
Cynthia is a feminine
given name of
Greek origin: Κυνθία,
Kynthía, "from Mount
Cynthus" on
Delos island. It can be abbreviated as
Cindy or as Cyndy. There are various spellings for this name.
Cynthia
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
(synonym) Artemis
(hypernym) Greek deity
(classification) Greek mythology
Cynthia
n.
Cynthia, female first name
Cynthia
[Greek] Cynthia is an epithet of Artemis, referring to her and Apollo's place of birth on Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos. For the same reason, Apollo was called Cynthius.
Artemis
[Greek] The daughter of Leto and Zeus, and twin sister of Apollo. Artemis is the goddess of the wilderness, the hunt and wild animals, and fertility (she became a goddess of fertility and childbirth mainly in cities). She was often depicted with the crescent of the moon above her forehead and was sometimes identified with Selene (goddess of the moon). Artemis was one of the Olympians and a virgin goddess. Her main vocation was to roam mountain forests and uncultivated land with her nymphs in attendance hunting for lions, panthers, hinds and stags. Contradictory to the later, she helped in protecting and seeing to their well-being, also their safety and reproduction. She was armed with a bow and arrows which were made by Hephaestus and the Cyclopes. In one legend, Artemis was born one day before her brother Apollo. Her mother gave birth to her on the island of Ortygia, then, almost immediately after her birth, she helped her mother to cross the straits over to Delos, where she then deliver...
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