cressida
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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.""
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Criseida, Χρυσηΐς, χρυσός
Usage
Inflected Forms
Cressidas (plural)
Cresida (alternative)