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Benita
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benita
English
Etymology
en :bor es:Benita + 1
Proper noun
en female Spanish.
4 March 1931 Daughter Ends Life over Gordon Murder. https://www.nytimes.com/1931/03/04/archives/daughter-ends-life-over-gord-on-murder-benita-bischoff-16-dies-by.html Benita Bischoff, the 16-year-old daughter of Vivian Gordon, the vice inquiry witness who was found strangled in Van Cortlandt Park, committed suicide in Audubon, N.J., yesterday by inhaling gas.
27 August 1967 Benita Bryant Married To Peter Brian Trinkle https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/27/archives/benita-bryant-married-to-peter-brian-trinkle.html The chapel of the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest was the setting yesterday afternoon for the wedding of Miss Benita Parker Bryant and Peter Brian Trinkle. The couple’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. A. Parker Bryant of Palm Beach, Fla., and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Trinkle of Fareham, Hampshire, England.
25 October 2025 Jonathan Kandell Benita Valente, Acclaimed Bel Canto Soprano, Is Dead at 91 https://web.archive.org/web/20251025200733/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/arts/music/benita-valente-dead.html Benita Valente was born on Oct. 19, 1934, in Delano, Calif., in the San Joaquin Valley, where her parents owned a dairy farm and grew cotton.
Faroese
Proper noun
fo proper noun f
fo female
Usage notes
f Benituson Benitudóttir
Declension
Benita Benitu Benitu Benitu
Latvian
Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From lv es Benita.
Proper noun
lv proper noun f
lv female
References
Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, 5-7966-0278-0
Population Register of Latvia: Benita was the only given name of 1103 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Spanish
Etymology
Feminine form of es Benito, from es la Benedictus. Equivalent to the rare en Benedicta.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es female