Desdemona

Meaning

Proper Noun

• By analogy to Othello's wife in Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, the wife or partner of an Othello-like figure, especially one who is the focus of jealousy.
• An inner moon of the planet Uranus.
• 666 Desdemona, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1908.

Related

Opposite words

• Eudaimonia

Origin

• Coined based on Ancient Greek δυσ- + δαίμων, hence "ill-fated, unfortunate".