Gender Feminine
Usage Literature, Greek (?)
Meaning & History
The name of a Greek character in My Family and Other Animals (1956), a memoir by British naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell based on his family's four years (between 1935 and 1939) living on the Greek island of Corfu, and its television adaptation The Durrells (2016-2019). It might be a hellenized form of the Italian name Lucrezia (also compare Loukretia).