Cecilia
Cäcilie , also Cäcilia or Caecilia , is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
Cäcilie derives from the feminine form Caecilia of the ancient Roman gentile name Caecilius .
name day
The name day is November 22nd , after Cäcilia of Rome , Roman virgin and martyr in the 3rd century, patroness of church music .
variants
- Cäcilia (German)
- Caecilia (Latin)
- Cécile (French)
- Cecilia , Cécilia (German, English, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Swedish)
- Cecilie (German, Norwegian, Danish)
- Cecílie (Czech)
- Cecilija (Slovenian, Croatian)
- Cecily (English)
- Cecylia (Polish)
- Sesilya (Turkish)
- Selja (Finnish)
- Sheila (English, Irish)
- Shelagh (Irish)
- Silja (Finnish)
- Zzilie (German)
short form
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Well-known namesake
Antiquity
- Caecilia Attica (1st century BC), daughter of the Roman knight Titus Pomponius Atticus
- Caecilia Metella
- Caecilia Metella (mother of Lucullus) (2nd century BC)
- Caecilia Metella (wife of Sulla) († 81 BC)
- Caecilia Metella (mother of Clodius Pulcher) (1st century BC)
- Caecilia Metella (wife of Lentulus Spinther) (1st century BC)
- Caecilia Metella (wife of Scipio Nasica) (2nd century BC)
- Caecilia Metella (wife of Servilius Vatia) (2nd century BC)
- Caecilia Metella , daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus , known for her tomb on the Via Appia Antica
- Caecilia Paulina († 236 at the latest), wife of the Roman emperor Maximinus Thrax
- Cäcilia of Rome (around 200– around 230), martyr and saint
Modern times
- Cäcilie Arand (1838–1908), German writer
- Cäcilie Bleeker (1798–1888), first honorary citizen in Schleswig-Holstein, see also: Cäcilie-Bleeker-Park
- Cäcilie von Baden (1839-1891), as Olga Fjodorovna Grand Duchess of Russia
- Cäcilie von Brandenburg (around 1405–1449), by marriage to the Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- Cäcilie Fröhlich (1900–1992), electrical engineer and doctorate in maths
- Cäcilie Graf-Pfaff (1862–1939), German painter and graphic artist of naturalism
- Cäcilie Hansmann (1908–1984), German resistance fighter and member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Cecilie Leganger (* 1975), Norwegian handball player
- Cecilie von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886–1954), last German Crown Princess
- Cäcilia Renata of Austria (1611–1644), Queen of Poland
- Caecilia von Oldessem († 1542), abbess of the Harvestehude monastery
- Cecilie von Preußen (1917–1975) , the youngest child of Crown Prince Wilhelm
- Cäcilia Rentmeister (* 1948), German gender and gender researcher
- Cäcilie von Schweden (Cäcilie von Oldenburg; 1807–1844), Princess of Sweden
- Caecilie Seler-Sachs (1855–1935), German ethnologist, photographer and author
- Cæcilia Holbek Trier (* 1953), Danish actress, director and screenwriter
- Cäcilie Wasa (1540–1627), Princess of Sweden, daughter of Gustav I. Wasa
- Cäcilie Zeller (1800–1876), German poet
Cilly
- Cilly Aussem (1909–1963), German tennis player
- Cilly Feindt (1909–1999), German actress
- Cilly Kugelmann (* 1947), German curator and writer
- Cilly Schäfer (1898–1981), German politician
Pieces of music
- Ode to St. Cecilia by Henry Purcell , 1692
- Ode for St. Cecilia's Day by Georg Friedrich Händel (HWV 76), 1739
- Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae (wrongly Cäcilienmesse ) by Joseph Haydn
- Mass solennelle en l'honneur de Sainte-Cécile ( Cecilia Mass ) by Charles François Gounod , first performed in Paris in 1855
- Caecilienmesse op.200 by Robert Führer
- Richard Strauss set the poem Cäcilie by Heinrich Hart to music in 1894 .
- Hymn to St. Cecilia is a piece for a cappella choir by Benjamin Britten based on a poem by WH Auden from 1942.
- In 1959, Bill Ramsey sang a German hit called "Cecilia", which is about a flirtatious female figure of the same name.
- "Cecilia" is also the name of a piece of music by Simon and Garfunkel (album Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)). As a single it climbed to number 4 in the US charts. The poetry begins with "Celia, you're breaking my heart / You're shaking my confidence daily ..." The play was in Malawi censored because "Cecilia" (Cecilia Kadzamira Tamanda) the name of the wife of the President Hastings Banda 's .
- The group Ace of Base also sang an extended version of "Cecilia" based on the piece by Simon and Garfunkel . The refrain contains: "Cecilia, walk in the light / Cecilia, you're gonna live forever / According to a well known song / Cecilia, walk in the light / Cecilia, did you come home? / And to whom?"
- “To the Feast of Saint Cäcilia” by Fanny Hensel (1833) for SATB (mixed) and piano, Furore-Verlag.
additional
- Saint Cecilia or the violence of music , story by Heinrich von Kleist
- Cäcilia, an organ for Catholic church music, 1862 ff.
- Cäcilia Wolkenburg , a stage play community of the Cologne Men's Singing Association
- Music association "Cäcilia" Herrlingen
See also
- Cecilia
- Cecilie
- Celia
- Cilly
- Cäcilienbrücke , lift bridge near Oldenburg
- Cäcilienbrunnen , listed fountain in Heilbronn
- Cäciliengroden , part of the municipality of Sande in the district of Friesland
- Cecilia Church
- Cäcilienpark , Leipzig
- Cäcilienschlucht , wooded area in Flensburg - Mürwik
- Cecilia School
- Cecilianism
Web links
Wiktionary: Cäcilia - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
