Etymology

Cecile

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Today it means: A female given name from Latin. Full definition →

French Cécile ← Anglo-Norman Cecile ← Latin Caecilia
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromCaecilia
  2. Anglo-Norman · derived fromCecile
  3. French · borrowed fromCécile
  4. English todayCecile

From French Cécile, from Anglo-Norman Cecile, from Latin Caecilia.

Words from the same roots

LatinCaecilia all →

CeciliaSisleycaecilian

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.