English Explanatory Dictionary

Cressida

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
  2. A moon of Uranus, Solar System.

Word forms

Cressida Cressidas Cresida

Etymology

Used 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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