Meaning of cecilia

cecilia: It is a woman's name of Latin origin. It means cieguita or cieguecilla , diminutive of blind . It was the stage name of a Spanish singer-songwriter, whose real name is Evangelina Sobredo Galanes. He died very young in a car accident. Stage name of Chilean singer-songwriter, whose real name is Mireya Cecilia Ramona Pantoja Levi. She is also called Cecilia the Incomparable. In Zoology it is the name of an amphibian apod very similar to the earthworm but of giant dimensions. It feeds basically on insects and are popularly called blind snakes. They belong to the Order Gymnophiona. It is also one of the names used for an asteroid (2039), which is also named Payne-Gaposchkin, and which was dedicated to the American astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.; Name of woman, derived from the diminutive of caecus -a -um (blind): cieguecita . This afternoon I heard a song by Cecilia, a beauty of a singer-songwriter of the 70s, tragically killed then by my land near Benavente. "Lady, lady, high birth, low bed", sang my admired Cecilia criticizing the bourgeois morality of public virtues and private vices.; CECILIA: Asteroid number 297, of the series.