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"CECILIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be blind". |
Date "CECILIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cecilia (St.). A Roman lady who underwent martyrdom in the third century. She is the patron saint of the blind, being herself blind; she is also patroness of musicians, and "inventor of the organ." "At length divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame." Dryden: Alexander's Feast. According to tradition, an angel fell in love with her for her musical skill, and used nightly to visit her. Her husband saw the heavenly visitant, who gave to both a crown of martyrdom which he brought from Paradise. Dryden and Pope have written odes in her honour, and both speak of her charming an angel by her musical powers: "He [Timotheus] raised a mortal to the skies," She [Cecilia] brought an angel down." Dryden: Alexander's Feast. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CECILIA |
| Specialty definitions using "CECILIA": St. Cecilia, Symbols of Saints. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Cecilia, it's clear how miserable you are with your husband. (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.) | |
Lyrics | Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia (Cecilia; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees (Cecilia; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cecilia (1954) Agnes Cecilia - en sällsam historia (1991) Cecilia (1990) Casa Cecilia (1982) Daniel y Cecilia (1980) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Sister Cecilia Ruggiero assists a public health nurse give eye drops to a newborn infant]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The stonework of the tomb of Caeciliae Metilae Crassi, Via Appia Antico-- ; "Caracole" of Chichinitza [sic], Yucatan ; Tombs of Cecilia Metella, Via Appia Antico, Rome. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cecilia Cooledge, die zweite im Eiskunstlauf, galt als die "Grose Gefahr" für Sonja Henie und rechtfertigte diesen Ruf. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Guatemala | On December 12, 2000, the prosecutor requested that Judge Cecilia Isabel Paiz issue an arrest warrant for Barrientos on rape charges. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Peru | On September 2, Cecilia Valenzuela of Channel N's political program "Entre Lineas," said that APRA's leader Alan Garcia requested and obtained Montesinos's help to have the judiciary decide the prescription of Garcia's crimes, so that Garcia could return to the country and run in the last presidential elections. (references) |
Human Rights | Cuba | In December 2000, courts convicted Angel Moya Acosta and Julia Cecilia Delgado of "contempt for authority" and sentenced each of them to 1 year in prison. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CECILIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CECILIA" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 133 | 27,614 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CECILIA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cecilia | First name Female | 55,000 | 318 |
| Cecilia | Last name | 130 | 65,076 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "CECILIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be blind". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "CECILIA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Cecelia | Female | English | Cecilia |
| Cecilia | Female | English | N/A |
| Cecily | Female | English | Cecilia |
| Sissie | Female | English | Cecilia |
| Sissy | Female | English | Cecilia |
| Silja | Female | Finnish | Cecilia |
| Cécile | Female | French | Cecilia |
| Cili | Female | Hungarian | Cecilia |
| Síle | Female | Irish | Cecilia |
| Cecilia | Female | Italian | N/A |
| Sisel | Female | Jewish | Cecilia |
| Cecília | Female | Portuguese | Cecilia |
| Cecilia | Female | Scandinavian | N/A |
| Sìleas | Female | Scottish | Cecilia |
| Cecilija | Female | Slovene | Cecilia |
| Cilka | Female | Slovene | Cecilia |
| Cecilia | Female | Spanish | N/A |
| Silja | Female | Swedish | Cecilia |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Brazil | Cia Industrial e Agricola Santa Cecilia |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Cecilia, LA (CDP, FIPS 13575) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CECILIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | Kickle, Kial. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eciliacay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"CECILIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caculuma, Camilio, Cariglia, cecilian, Cecilio, Cecilius, cecillia, Cecilliot, Ceili, Cekuolis, Cepilux, Cichilidae, Ciclitira, Concilii, Concilio, Copilia, Cuculidae, Cucullia, cybilia, Dekalia, Fetilia, Kokolia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-l" | |
-1 letter: celiac, cicale, cilice, icicle. | |
-2 letters: cecal, cilia, ileac, iliac. | |
-3 letters: alec, ceca, ceil, ilea, ilia, lace, laic, lice. | |
-4 letters: ace, ail, ale, cel, ice, lac, lea, lei, lie. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, al, el, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-l" | |
+2 letters: caecilian, calcified, calcifies, calcimine, cichlidae, dialectic. | |
+3 letters: caecilians, calcimined, calcimines, celibacies, chimerical, classicize, conciliate, delicacies, dialectics, indelicacy. | |
+4 letters: acclimatise, acclimatize, acclivities, alchemistic, biochemical, calisthenic, catholicize, circinately, circularise, circularize, circulative, classicized, classicizes, clericalism, clericalist, climacteric, conciliated, conciliates, decalcified, decalcifies, dialectical, electrician, equicaloric, preclinical, precritical, semiclassic, uncalcified. | |
+5 letters: acclimatised, acclimatises, acclimatized, acclimatizer, acclimatizes, agrichemical, anticlerical, archipelagic, articulacies, bactericidal, biochemicals, biotechnical, calisthenics, calorimetric, capacitively, capercaillie, capercailzie, catholicized, catholicizes, centralistic, chaplaincies, chimerically, circularised, circularises, circularized, circularizes, clavieristic, cleistogamic, clericalisms, clericalists, climacterics, coincidental, comicalities, compliancies, complicacies, conciliative, criticalness, criticizable, decalcifying, dialectician, diencephalic, ecclesiastic, electricians, encephalitic, epicuticular, epicycloidal, exorcistical, flaccidities, heroicomical, hierarchical, immaculacies, inaccessible, inaccessibly, indelicacies, insecticidal, intervocalic, microclimate, necrophiliac, overcritical, placekicking, secularistic, semicircular, semiclassics, specialistic, specifically, technicality, technicalize, viscoelastic. | |
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