English

Alternative forms

• Lidia

Proper noun

Lydia

1. (historical) A region of southwest Asia Minor or Persia.
2. (biblical) A woman converted by St. Paul; presumably named for ancestry or residence in Lydia.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts 16:14::

     And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.

3. A female given name.
   • 1813 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice/Chapter 9:

     Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.

   • 1990 Sue Miller, Family Pictures, Harper & Row, ISBN 0060163976, page 5:

     The first three, Macklin, Lydia, and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah.

Derived terms

• adjective: Lydian

Related terms

• pet form: Liddy

Translations

Anagrams

• daily

Danish

Proper noun

Lydia

1. Lydia (biblical character).
2. A female given name.

French

Proper noun

Lydia

1. A female given name, a Latinized variant of Lydie.

German

Proper noun

Lydia

1. Lydia (biblical character).
2. A female given name.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λυδία ‎(Ludía).

Proper noun

Lȳdia f ‎(genitive Lȳdiae); first declension

1. Lydia (country in Asia Minor)

Declension

First declension.

References

• Lydia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Lydia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Lydia

1. Lydia (biblical character).
2. A female given name.

Swedish

Proper noun

Lydia

1. Lydia (biblical character).
2. A female given name.