Cordelia

Cordelia
Cordelia
Gender Female
Origin
Meaning Heart, Daughter of the Sea, Jewel of the Sea

Cordelia is a common first name in English. It is an elaboration of the word 'cor', which means 'heart' in Latin. In Celtic usages, the name is generally understood to mean 'daughter of the sea' or 'jewel of the sea' (sometimes translated as 'star of the sea' or as another such item associated with brilliance and value), due to its association with the mythological Welsh figure of Creiddylad. (Rare) variations include (but are not limited to) Cordollya, Cordula, Cordiella, Cordeilia, Cordilia, Cordell, and Cordele. Historically, in North American and European usages the names Dahlia, Delilah, Delia, and Adele are sometimes associated with 'Cordelia', and share the common nickname of "Dilly".

People

In fiction

  • Cordelia (King Lear), a central character in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, based on the story of Queen Cordelia of the Britons and her father Lear
  • Cordelia of Britain, legendary queen of the Britons, youngest daughter of King Leir
  • Cordelia Abbott, in the television soap opera The Young And The Restless
  • Cordelia Blake, titular character of the novel Cordelia by Winston Graham, published in 1949
  • Cordelia Chase, character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
  • Cordelia Flakk, a character from Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book
  • Lady Cordelia Flyte, in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  • Cordelia Gray, in two books by P.D. James
  • Cordelia Naismith, in the Vorkosigan Saga novels by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Cordelia Ransom, in the Honorverse novels by David Weber
  • Dutch adult comic strip by Belgian cartoonist Inge "ILAH" Heremans
  • The Anglicization of Creiddylad, a female figure from Welsh mythology
  • The main character of the short story "Cordelia the Crude" by Wallace Thurman
  • Cordelia Glauca, Japanese anime character in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
  • Cordelia Abidaoud Phoenician Princes
  • Cordelia Gallo, Japanese anime character in "Gosick"

References

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  2. ^ Cordelia Agnes Greene

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