Jacinda

English

Etymology

Probably an alteration of Spanish Jacinta under the influence of the female given name suffix -inda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈsɪndə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪndə

Proper noun

Jacinda

1. A female given name
   • 2020 April 18, “Your View: Letters with Love”, in Ashburton Guardian‎^[1], page 14:

     So the nice travel agent Jacinda, has rung and offered us a one-time special to another island it's called Corona Island, that's an island just north of where we are, but your mothere isn't too sure about going there as she has heard they once had a bad outbreak of Wu Flu and she doesn't want to risk catching anything. nasty.

   • 2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 October 2021, Asia Pacific:

     Through an array of strategies, gimmicks and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's encouragement through the day, 124,669 shots were administered by late in the day in a country of 4.9 million.
     "We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service. "Let's go for 150 [thousand]. Let's go big or go home."

Derived terms

• Jacindamania

Anagrams

• jacanid