Cecile

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

• IPA^(key): /səˈsiːl/

Cecile

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1989, Ann Richards; Peter Knobler, Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 91:

     […] so I named my baby Lynn Cecile. My mother asked, "What are you going to call her? You can't call her "Seal" because then I'll think of something slick and wet."

• Cecil
• Cecilia

• Hyphenation: ce‧cile

Cecile

1. a female given name

Learned borrowing from Latin Caecilia

Cecile f (nominative singular Cecile)

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Cecilia or Cecile

• French: Cécile
• → Irish: Síle
  • → English: Sheila