[ 2 syll. cin-dy, ci-ndy ] The baby girl name Cindy is pronounced as S IH NDiy- â . Cindy is used mostly in English, Latin, and Dutch, and its language of origin is French and Old Greek. From the short form of other given names, but now used as an independent name in its own right.n addition, Cindy is a diminutive form of the English name Cinderella. Cindy is also a diminutive form (English and Latin) of the English, German, and Greek name Cynthia. Cindy is also a diminutive form (Dutch and English) of the English, Portuguese, and Spanish name Lucinda.
By the time the Greeks were colonizing Syracuse and the rest of Sicily, the Phoenicians were already (9th century B.C.) a major power in the middle of the Mediterranean. The principal city of the Phoenicians, Carthage, was located near modern Tunis, on a promontory on the Northern Coast of Africa.
At the start of the first Punic War, Carthage was the dominant power of the Western Mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire. Rome was a rapidly ascending power in Italy, but it lacked the naval power of Carthage.hile Carthage's navy was the largest in the ancient world at the time, it did not maintain a large, permanent, standing army. Instead, Carthage relied mostly on mercenaries, especially the indigenous Numidians, to fight its wars. However, most of the officers who commanded the armies were Carthaginian citizens.