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Criseyde
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Usages: Literature, Medieval English
Variants: Criseida, Criseide, Cresseid, Cressid
Meaning: Medieval English form of Criseida (following "the usual practice of omitting the final redundant letter") used by Geoffrey Chaucer in his 14th-century poem Troilus and Criseyde - a direct source for Shakespeare's tragedy Troilus and Cressida (1602).
https://books.google.de/books?id=9nd05X_awIgC&pg=PT136&lpg=PT136&dq=CRISEYDE+medieval+name&source=bl&ots=FXcq_O62j3&sig=PKh4OlGbkOm3Cw2tM45JG4NKb0k&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs-8yQ2_PMAhVIPhQKHX0MBT0Q6AEIVzAI#v=onepage&q=CRISEYDE%20medieval%20name&f=false
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Variants: Criseida, Criseide, Cresseid, Cressid
Meaning: Medieval English form of Criseida (following "the usual practice of omitting the final redundant letter") used by Geoffrey Chaucer in his 14th-century poem Troilus and Criseyde - a direct source for Shakespeare's tragedy Troilus and Cressida (1602).
https://books.google.de/books?id=9nd05X_awIgC&pg=PT136&lpg=PT136&dq=CRISEYDE+medieval+name&source=bl&ots=FXcq_O62j3&sig=PKh4OlGbkOm3Cw2tM45JG4NKb0k&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs-8yQ2_PMAhVIPhQKHX0MBT0Q6AEIVzAI#v=onepage&q=CRISEYDE%20medieval%20name&f=false
(Information from name #34384 originally submitted by user erb816)