Delia词源解析

Delian (adj.)

1620s, "of Delos," tiny island in the Aegean, birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.
Delian problem "find the length of the side of a cube having double the volume of a given cube," was set by the oracle at Delos when it answered (430 B.C.E.) that the plague in Athens would end when Apollo's (cube-shaped) altar was doubled.
The Latin fem. form of the word became the proper name Delia.

1620年，得洛斯岛（位于基克拉泽斯群岛的中部，是基克拉泽斯群岛的心脏），爱琴海上的一座小岛，也是阿波罗（太阳神）与阿尔忒弥斯（月神）的故乡。
得洛斯问题（倍立方体难题）：“求一个立方体的棱长，使得它的体积等于一给定立方体体积的2倍”，是在公元前430年由得洛斯人的神谕中昭示着肆虐希腊的疫病*1只有把太阳神阿波罗的神坛扩建一倍时才会被遏制。
之后这个名词在拉丁语中确定为Delia

相关参考资料：
伯罗奔尼撒战争与瘟疫
Delos岛：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delos
Dleian：l adj.（爱琴海中）得洛斯岛(Delos)的ll n.得洛斯人;
提洛同盟：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League
注释：各个版本中描述略有差别，但是主要内容雷同。

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Delia

*Delia is a feminine given name, either taken from an epithet of the Greek moon goddess Artemis or else representing a short form of Adelia, Bedelia, Cordelia or Odelia. *

Delia是一个女性的名字，无论是否来自于月神阿尔忒弥斯的绰号或者是Adelia, Bedelia, Cordelia 和Odelia的缩写。

According to records for the 1901 Irish census, there were 6,260 persons named Delia living that
year in all 32 counties of Ireland, with 256 more bearing the full forename Bedelia (plus 59 other persons with the variant spelling Bidelia, and 361 Biddy, 529 Bride and 153984 Bridget). These related names originated as English renderings of the Irish name Brighid (or Bríd) meaning "exalted one", which originally belonged to a pagan fertility goddess (later, to an important medieval saint).

根据1901年爱尔兰人口统计报告，那一年在爱尔兰的32个城市中有6260人叫Delia, 其中有256人全拼为Bedelia (加上59个Bidelia，361个Biddy, 529个Bride个153984个Bridget【注：Bridget凯尔特语中意为“力量”，昵称就是Biddy与Bride,这几个名字都是以Bedelia为词根的变化形式】这些相近的名字都来源于爱尔兰名Bridhid(也叫Bríd)，意为“高贵”，来源于一个异教徒的掌管生育女神（后来，成为了一位中世纪重要的圣者的名字）

In most cases, however, the name Delia refers to the tiny Greek island of Delos (Ancient Greek: Δῆλος), the birthplace of Artemis and her twin brother Apollo.

在大多数情况下，Delia这个名字指的是希腊的一座小岛Delos（古希腊：Δῆλος）、阿尔忒弥斯和她的孪生兄弟阿波罗的发源。
From：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia

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Brigid

Brigit, Brigid or Bríg (/ˈbrɪ.dʒɪd/, /ˈbriː.ɪd/, "exalted one") was a goddess of pre-Christian Ireland. She appears in Irish mythology as a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the daughter of the Dagda and wife of Bres, with whom she had a son named Ruadán.

Brigit, Brigid或者Brig (/ˈbrɪ.dʒɪd/, /ˈbriː.ɪd/, "高贵的")是信仰基督教之前，爱尔兰的神明。她在爱尔兰神话中作为Tuatha Dé Danann【达南神族】的成员，Dagda的女儿，Bres的妻子，她有个儿子叫Ruadán

It has been suggested that Brigid is a continuation of the Indo-European dawn goddess. She is associated with the spring season, fertility, healing, poetry and smithcraft. Cormac's Glossary, written in the 10th century by Christian monks, says that Brigid was "the goddess whom poets adored" and that she had two sisters: Brigid the healer and Brigid the smith. This suggests she may have been a triple deity.

这表明，Brigid可能是印欧系神话系统中，黎明女神的衍生。她常常被春天，繁衍，治愈，诗歌以及锻工联系在一起。10世纪一位基督教的僧侣曾经写到Brigid是“诗人所歌颂的女神”，她还有2个姐妹：治愈的Brigid和铁匠之Brigid。这表明她可能是三位一体的女神。

Saint Brigid shares many of the goddess's attributes and her feast day was originally a pagan festival (Imbolc) marking the beginning of spring. It has thus been argued that the saint is a Christianization of the goddess.

圣Brigid有着许多神明的共性。她的节日起初是一个异教徒的节日（圣烛节）【注：圣布里基德节，凯尔特节日，每年2月1号或者2号】，用以庆祝春天的到来，也正因为如此，被后世奉为基督教的神明。
圣烛节：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc