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Desdemona en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˌdɛzdəˈmoʊnə/ (US)

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) + δαίμων (daímōn), hence "ill-fated, unfortunate".

Meanings

  1. Othello's wife in Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, noted for being a victim of jealousy.
    • On the first of these days' amusements ( I know not what year ) Frank took offence at some attentions paid his Desdemona, and walked away next morning to London in wrath. 1848, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, page 77:
    • As I looked out of the corner of my eye at this savagely picturesque fellow, wondering where was his Desdemona, a dainty and remarkably pretty piece of femininity entered the car, advanced to our table and sat herself beside Othello. 1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat:
    • Luria, the Moor of Florence, is a sentimentally magnanimous Othello without his passions and without his Desdemona. 2005, Boyd Litzinger, Donald Smalley, Robert Browning: The Critical Heritage, page 260:
    • Devastated by early losses, the narcissistic lover is unable to live with his Desdemona because he is unable to live without his idealization of her. 2012, Alvin O. Korte, Nosotros: A Study of Everyday Meanings in Hispano New Mexico:
  2. An inner moon of the planet Uranus.
  3. 666 Desdemona, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1908.

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Antonyms

Eudaimonia

Translations (22)

fi Desdemona (moon of Uranus) · de Desdemona (moon of Uranus) · pl Desdemona (main-belt asteroid) · eo Dezdemono (main-belt asteroid) · it Desdemona (moon of Uranus) · eo Dezdemono (moon of Uranus) · pt Desdêmona (character) · pl Desdemona (character) · cmn 苔絲德蒙娜 /苔丝德蒙娜 (character) · ja デズデモーナ (main-belt asteroid) · fi Desdemona (character) · ml ഡെസ്ഡിമോണ (moon of Uranus) · pt Desdêmona (moon of Uranus) · fr Desdémone (moon of Uranus) · ja デズデモーナ (moon of Uranus) · pl Desdemona (moon of Uranus) · es Desdémona (moon of Uranus) · ru Дездемона (character) · ru Дездемона (moon of Uranus) · fr Desdémone (character) · cmn 天衛十 /天卫十 (moon of Uranus) · eo Dezdemono (character)