Cordelia
 William Frederick Yeames, Cordelia, 1888 | |
| Gender | Feminine |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | English |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | uncertain; possibly related to the word cordial (literally "heartfelt, from the heart") |
| Meaning | allegedly "heart" or "daughter of the sea(-god)", Jewel of the Sea (Welsh) |
| Other names | |
| Nickname(s) | Delia, Dilly, Rory, Cordy, Lia, Danny |
| Related names | Cordeilla, Cordélia, Cordell, Cordilla, Cordoylla, Cordula, Creurdilad? |
Cordelia is a feminine given name. It was borne by the tragic heroine of Shakespeare's King Lear (1606), a character based on the legendary queen Cordelia.[1] The name is of uncertain origin. It is popularly associated with Latin cor (genitive cordis) "heart", and has also been linked with the Welsh name Creiddylad, allegedly meaning "jewel of the sea", but it may derive from the French coeur de lion "heart of a lion". In the Greek language, the word "κορδέλλα" means stripe or ribbon with a root from the word "χορδή", i.e. string.
Real people with the name
- Cordelia Botkin, American murderer
- Cordelia of Britain, legendary queen of the Britons, youngest daughter of King Leir
- Cordelia Bugeja, British actress
- Cordelia Cameron, Australian actor-mananger
- Cordelia de Castellane,[2] French designer
- Cordelia Throop Cole (1833–1900), American social reformer
- Cordelia Fine, British academic psychologist and writer
- Cordelia Agnes Greene, 19th-century physician, philanthropist and suffragist from Upstate New York[3]
- Cordelia Harvey, First Lady of Wisconsin Governor Louis Harvey, known for founding Civil War Orphans homes and advocating for war field hospital conditions
- Cordelia Hawkins, eponym of the U.S. town of Cordele, Georgia
- Cordelia Knott, wife of Walter Knott and founder of Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott's Berry Farm
- Cordelia Scaife May, philanthropist
- Cordelia Mendoza, American antiquarian and appraiser[4]
- Cordelia Strube, Canadian playwright and novelist
- Cordelia Wilson, painter of New Mexico and American Southwest landscapes
Fictional characters with the name
- A supposed anglicization of Creiddylad, the name of a character in Welsh mythology.[5]
- Cordelia (King Lear), a central character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear, based on the story of King Leir.
- Cordelia, the main character of the eponymous Dutch adult comic strip by Belgian cartoonist "ILAH" Inge Heremans.
- Cordelia, character in James Lapine and William Finn's 1990 off-Broadway musical Falsettoland and later its two Broadway revivals, renamed Falsettos.
- Cordelia, humble and supremely talented, the sole survivor of Ylisse's pegasus knights in Fire Emblem Awakening.
- Cordelia Frost, character in MARVEL's "Emma Frost" comics, Emma's sister.
Anime
- Cordelia Capulet, Japanese anime character in "Romeo x Juliet".
- Cordelia Gallo, Japanese anime character in "Gosick".
- Cordelia Glauca, Japanese anime character in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes.
- Cordelia, Japanese anime character in Diabolik Lovers.
Films and television shows
- Cordelia Abbott, in the television soap opera The Young and The Restless.
- Cordelia Chase, character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
- Cordelia is a 1980 Québec movie starring Louise Portal about real life Cordelia Corriveau, who was hanged in 1763 in Saint-Vallier, Québec, after being condemned for murdering her husband. She was after her death exposed in an iron cage at a crossroad.
- Cordelia Foxx, character in American Horror Story: Coven.
- Cordelia Winthrop Scott, from the 2011 film Monte Carlo, played by Selena Gomez.
- Cordelia Thornberry, a character in the Wild Thornberrys, wife of Radcliffe Thornberry, mother of Nigel Thornberry, mother-in-law of Marianne Thornberry, and paternal grandmother of Debbie, Eliza, and Donnie.
Literature
- In Kierkegaard’s Either/Or in the section of Diary of a Seducer.
- In Anne of Green Gables, Anne requests that she be called Cordelia rather than Anne when she believes she will only be staying with the Cuthberts for one night.
- Cordelia Blake, titular character of the Winston Graham novel Cordelia (published in 1949).
- Cordelia Flakk, character in Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book.
- Lady Cordelia Flyte, in Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh.
- Cordelia Geard, in [[John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance (1932).
- Cordelia Gray, in two books by P.D. James.
- Cordelia Ransom, in the Honorverse novels by David Weber.
- The main character of the short story "Cordelia the Crude" by Wallace Thurman.
- Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
- Cordelia Carstairs, protagonist of The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare.
References
- ^ Uckelman, Sara L. (21 January 2007). "Concerning the Name Cordelia". MedievalScotland.org. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ C de C ([1] Archived 2008-09-10 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Cordelia Agnes Greene Archived 2008-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Directory of ANA Qualified Appraisers". Appraisers National Association.
- ^ Doubt has been cast on the linking of these two names, beyond "the string of consonants C-R-D-L".Sara L. Uckelman, "Concerning the name Cordelia"
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