Cressida

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”).

Cressida

1. A female given name.
   • 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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