Marita
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
- Marita Blattmann (* 1959), German historian
- Marita Böhme (* 1939), German actress
- Marita Breuer (* 1953), German actress
- Marita Gründgens (1903–1985), German actress, chansonette and cabaret artist
- Marita Haibach (* 1953), German politician (The Greens)
- Marita Hüninghake (* 1966), German national volleyball player
- Marita Keilson-Lauritz (* 1935), German literary scholar, essayist and editor
- Marita Koch (* 1957), German athlete and Olympic champion
- Marita Köllner (* 1958), German singer and presenter (Cologne)
- Marita Krauss (* 1956), German historian and university professor
- Marita Lange (* 1943), German athlete and Olympic medalist
- Marita Lorenz (* 1939), German lover of Fidel Castro
- Marita Skammelsrud Lund (* 1989), Norwegian soccer player
- Marita Marschall (* 1958), German actress
- Marita Meyer-Kainer (* 1954), German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
- Marita Pabst-Weinschenk (* 1955), German speech scientist and author
- Marita Payne-Wiggins (* 1960), Canadian athlete
- Marita Petersen (1940–2001), Faroese educator and politician of the social democracy
- Marita Ragonese (* 1957), German actress
- Marita Rauterkus (* 1942), German politician (SPD), MdL
- Xenia Marita Riebe (* 1957), German artist
- Marita Sandig (* 1958), German Olympic champion in rowing
- Marita Sehn (1955-2004), German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
- Marita Skogum (* 1961), Swedish orienteer
- Marita de Sterck (* 1955), Flemish writer
- Marita Vollborn (* 1965), German journalist and author
- Marita Wagner (* 1952), German politician (Die Grünen, Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
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"