Zenobia
August 12, 2014 § 1 Comment
ORIGIN:
From Greek, meaning “life of Zeus”.
VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Sena, Seena, Senia, Sina, Xena, Xeena, Xenia, Xina, Xenobia, Zena, Zenia, Zenicia, Zenija, Zenovia, Zina, Zinovia, Zinoviya, etc.
REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Zenobia Frome (called “Zeena“), Ethan’s sickly, caustic wife in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (written in 1911, but set in the 1890s or first few years of the 1900s).
The Art of Literary Nomenclature 
[…] / “Zenia”, or a diminutive of names like “Rosina” or “Zenobia“, “Zenaida”, […]
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