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Cressida
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English
Alternative forms
en Cresida
Etymology
Used by Geoffrey Chaucer, also by Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida (1602), from en it Criseida (which Boccaccio mistakenly substituted for it Briseida Briseis), from en grc Χρυσηΐς, from en grc χρυσός gold.
Proper noun
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en countable en female Ancient Greek.
en 2014 w:Joyce Carol Oates Carthage 38 Fourth Estate 9780007485741 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."
en astronomy en moon of planet/Uranus star system/Solar System.
Translations
moon of Uranus
Japanese: ja クレシダ Kureshida
Anagrams
en acdeirss sidecars
en Trojan War Moons of Uranus
Turkish
tr:+ (uydu)
Proper noun
tr astronomy en Cressida
tr Moons of Uranus