Cressida
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editUsed by Geoffrey Chaucer, also by Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida (1602), from Italian Criseida (which Boccaccio mistakenly substituted for Briseida (“Briseis”)), from Ancient Greek Χρυσηΐς (Khrusēḯs), from Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”).
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editCressida (countable and uncountable, plural Cressidas)
- (countable) 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."
- (astronomy) A moon of Uranus, Solar System
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