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Margarita
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margarita
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from the en la - and en es Margarita Margaret.
Proper noun
+
en female Ancient Greek.
en 26 December 1874 w:Florence Marryat Fighting the Air The Penny DespatchAn Irish Family Paper of News, Romance, and General Information New Series, volume II 30 chapter XVI (Laurence Fane Is Ruined) 474 https://archive.org/details/pennydespatchiri1318unse/page/474/mode/1up 1 1050717988 “I didn’t think you loved me so much as this, my Margarita!” he said, in a broken voice. She did not answer, but she clung to him as a child clings to its mother, and the end was, they remained in town together. It seemed as though Fate interposed to prevent the two Margaritas meeting again.
Etymology 2
en :bor es:margarita + 1
Noun
~
en margarita.
en 2008 w:Rodge Glass A Postcard with a Picture of Three Bare Tanned Backsides Baking Under a Foreign Sun on One Side, and Some Very Small, Very Neat Handwriting on the Other Hope for Newborns London Faber and Faber 207 https://archive.org/details/hopefornewborns0000glas/page/207/mode/1up 978-0-571-23821-7 Anyway, hope you don’t get this coz you’re off somewhere cool, sipping Margarita and getting over yourself.
en 10 April 2009 A Shot in the Dark w:Louis Black w:The Austin Chronicle 28 32 Austin, Tex. The Austin Chronicle Corporation 119 https://archive.org/details/The_Austin_Chronicle-2009-04-10/page/n118/mode/1up 1 1074-0740 8620367 You: Gray hair, 50-ish, dark red button-up shirt, black pants, sipping Margarita alone at table.
en 2019 Beverley E. Jones Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Wilderness London Constable 2020 52 https://archive.org/details/wilderness0000bejo/page/52/mode/1up 978-1-47212-796-9 Sipping salty Margaritas I’d finally started to feel as if we’d lived through something terrible and world-altering but ridden it out, survived.
Latvian
Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1210. From lv la Margarita, ultimately from lv grc μαργαρίτης. Cognate to en Margaret.
Proper noun
lv proper noun f
lv female Ancient Greek
Related terms
lv Grēta, lv Grieta, lv Margita, lv Margrieta, lv Marita, lv Megija, lv Meta, lv Rita
References
Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, 5-7966-0278-0
Population Register of Latvia: Margarita was the only given name of 3702 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
Margarità
Proper noun
f 2 Margarità
lt female Ancient Greek Margaret
Declension
Margarit Margarìt s
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es female Margaret Daisy
Descendants
en Margarita 1
Proper noun
es town/municipality dept/Bolívar c/Colombia Margarita, Bolívar Margarita