[PW] Cenadia

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting reneep8546 at aol.com:

> Hello,
> Has anyone ever heard of the name Cenadia? There are a few on the
> Internet mainly around Texas.I was wondering about the origin of the
> name.

The name is Zenaida, from the Greek: daughter of Zeus. Cenadia is a 
kind of rustic transposition, and the substitution of C for Z is a 
frequent misspelling. There are one or two saints so called for whom 
children are named.

John Dyson
Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University