Cecilia wasn't a teacher.
Source: tatoeba (882808)
Cecilia
//sɪˈsiːli.ə//
Synonyms for "cecilia"
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Translations
42 translations across 32 languages.
Breton
1 entries- Aziliz name (female given name)
Bulgarian
3 entries- Сеси́лия name (female given name)
- Цеци́лия name (female given name)
- Чечи́лия name (female given name)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- Цеці́лія name (female given name)
Catalan
1 entries- Cecília name (female given name)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 塞西莉亞 /塞西莉亚 name (female given name)
Czech
1 entries- Cecílie name (female given name)
Danish
1 entries- Cecilie name (female given name)
Esperanto
1 entries- Cecilia name (female given name)
Estonian
1 entries- Silja name (female given name)
Faroese
1 entries- Silja name (female given name)
Finnish
1 entries- Silja name (female given name)
French
1 entries- Cécile name (female given name)
Galician
1 entries- Icía name (female given name)
German
1 entries- Cäcilie name (female given name)
Greek
1 entries- Καικιλία name (female given name)
Hawaiian
1 entries- Kikilia name (female given name)
Hungarian
1 entries- Cecília name (female given name)
Irish
2 entries- Sisile name (female given name)
- Síle name (female given name)
Italian
1 entries- Cecilia name (female given name)
Latin
2 entries- Caecilia name (female given name)
- Cæcilia (alternate with the “æ” ligature) name (female given name)
Manx
3 entries- Kial name (female given name)
- Kickle name (female given name)
- Sheelagh name (female given name)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Cecilie name (female given name)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- Cecilie name (female given name)
Occitan
3 entries- Cecília name (female given name)
- Celha name (female given name)
- Ceselha name (female given name)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- Цецилия name (female given name)
Polish
1 entries- Cecylia name (female given name)
Portuguese
1 entries- Cecília name (female given name)
Russian
2 entries- Сеси́лия name (female given name)
- Цеци́лия name (female given name)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- Sìle name (female given name)
- Sìleas name (female given name)
Slovak
1 entries- Cecília name (female given name)
Spanish
1 entries- Cecilia name (female given name)
Swedish
1 entries- Cecilia name (female given name)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Hark how the flutes and trumpets raise / At bright Cecilia's name, their lays!
Source: wiktionary
‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’ ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey. ‘Then he has no business to do it,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Tell him he mustn’t. Cecilia Jupe. Let me see. What is your father?’
Source: wiktionary
Because they had named her Cecilia, her parents fancied that the matter of her life and character had been fairly well settled. She would, of course, be quiet and pale and mystical, like the saint whose picture hung above the old upright piano in the Kirby living-room.
Source: wiktionary
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