Cressida

English

Etymology

First used by Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida (1602), from Italian Criseida (Boccaccio's mistake for Briseida), from Ancient Greek Χρυσηΐς (Khrusēḯs), from Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”).

Proper noun

Cressida

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 2014 Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 38:

     Of course, Cressida had looked up her name online.

     Reporting to her parents, incensed: "'Cressida'―or 'Criseyde'―isn't nice at all. She's 'faithless'―that's how people thought of her in the Middle Ages .Chaucer wrote about her, and then Shakespeare. ( - - - )"

     "Oh, honey, come on. We don't believe in 'fate' in the U.S. of A. in 1996―this ain't the Middle Ages."

2. (astronomy) A moon of Uranus

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