Marita

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Marita is a female given name .

origin

Marita is an originally Latin name with the male variant Maritus . The origin is not certain. The name is considered to be derived either from maritus "the married, husband", in the female form therefore "the married, wife", or as a derivative originally formed with the suffix -ittus from the Roman gentile name Marius , in the female form then " to interpret those belonging to Marius ”. Marita also comes from Scandinavian as a derivation of the nickname Marit and can therefore be viewed as another nickname of Margaretha .

In the Aramaic and Spanish-speaking areas, Marita is often used as a pet form for Maria .

Name bearers

literature

  • Lidia Becker, Hispano-Romance name book. Investigation of personal names of pre-Roman, Greek and Latin-Roman etymology on the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages (6th-12th centuries) , Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2009 (= Patronymica Romanica, 23), ISBN 978-3-484-55523- 5 , p. 695f., Sv "Marius"

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de