| 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".
[edit] People
- Cordelia Botkin, American murderer
- Cordelia Bugeja, British actress
- Cordelia de Castellane,[1] French designer
- Cordelia Fine, British academic psychologist and writer
- Cordelia Agnes Greene, 19th century physician, philanthropist and suffragist from Upstate New York[2]
- Cordelia Hawkins, for whom the town of Cordele, Georgia was named
- Cordelia Scaife May, philanthropist
- Cordelia Mendoza, American antiquarian
- Cordelia Strube, Canadian playwright and novelist
- Cordelia Wilson, painter of New Mexico and American Southwest landscapes
[edit] 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 Abidaoud Phoenician Princes
- 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
- Cordelia Flyte, Lady in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Cordelia Gray, in two books by P.D. James
- Cordelia Harvey, first lady of Wisconsin Governor Louis Harvey of 1861, founder of Civil War Orphans homes and advocate for civil war field hospital conditions.
- 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 "ILAH" Inge Heremans
- The Anglicization of Creiddylad, a female figure from Welsh mythology
- The main character of the short story "Cordelia the Crude" by Wallace Thurman
[edit] References
- ^ C de C ([1])
- ^ Cordelia Agnes Greene
