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Cordelia
Cordelia![]() | | Gender | Feminine |
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| Language(s) | English |
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| Word/name | uncertain; possibly related to the word cordial (literally "heartfelt, from the heart") |
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| Meaning | allegedly "heart" or "daughter of the sea(-god)", Jewel of the Sea (Welsh) |
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| Nickname(s) | Delia, Dilly, Rory, Cordy, Lia, Danny |
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| Related names | Cordeilla, Cordélia, Cordell, Cordilla, Cordoylla, Cordula, Creurdilad |
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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".[citation needed]
Notable people with the name
- Cordelia of Britain, legendary queen of the Britons, youngest daughter of King Leir
- Cordelia Agbebaku (1961–2017), Nigerian academic and former vice-chancellor of Ambrose Alli University
- Cordelia Botkin (1854–1910), American murderer
- Cordelia Bugeja (born 1976), British actress
- Cordelia Cameron, Australian actor-manager
- Cordelia Camp, American educator
- Cordelia Candelaria (born 1943), American educator and writer
- Cordelia Throop Cole (1833–1900), American social reformer
- Cordelia Elizabeth Cook (1919–1996), American combat nurse
- Cordelia Adams Crawford (1865–1943), American pioneer and healer
- Cordelia Edvardson (1929–2012), German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor
- Cordelia Fine (born 1975), British academic psychologist and writer
- Cordelia Agnes Greene (1831–1905), physician, philanthropist and suffragist from Upstate New York
- Cordelia Griffith (born 1995), English cricketer
- Cordelia Gundolf (1917–2008), German academic and educator
- Cordelia Harvey (1824–1895), 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 Hood (1913–2011), American counter-intelligence agent
- Cordelia Howard (1848–1941), American child actress
- Cordelia James, Baroness James of Rusholme (1912–2007), British educator and justice of the peace
- Cordelia Knott (1890–1974), wife of Walter Knott and founder of Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott's Berry Farm
- Cordelia Oliver (1923–2009), Scottish journalist, painter and art critic
- Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005), American heiress and philanthropist
- Cordelia Schmid, German computer vision researcher
- Cordelia Stanwood (1865–1958), American ornithologist, wildlife photographer, artisan and writer
- Cordelia Strube (born 1960), Canadian playwright and novelist
- Cordelia Urueta Sierra (1908–1995), Mexican artist
- Cordelia Mendoza, American antiquarian and appraiser
- Cordelia Wege (born 1976), German actress
- Cordelia Wilson (1873–1953), American painter of New Mexico and American Southwest landscapes
Fictional characters
- A supposed anglicization of Creiddylad, the name of a character in Welsh mythology
- Cordelia (King Lear), a central character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear
- Cordelia, the character who is the object of seduction in Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Diary (a long section in his book Either/Or)
- 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 Frost, character in MARVEL's "Emma Frost" comics, Emma's sister
- Cordelia, wife of Dan Mulligan in a series of musicals written and produced by Edward Harrigan
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