Margaret

English right|thumb|Margaret River (Kimberley) in flood Etymology From the name of 3rd century Saint Margaret the Virgin, from en enm Margaret, from en fro Margaret (fr Marguerite), from en la Margarita, from en grc μαργαρίτης pearl, ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source. The same source, through folk etymology, has produced ang meregrot pearl stone or pebble of the sea, related to osx merigrita, osx merigriota pearl, goh merigrioz, equivalent to en mer groat 1. Pronunciation en /ˈmɑːɡɹɪt/ /ˈmɑːɡəɹɪt/ /-ət/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Margaret.wav Southern England en /ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/ /ˈmɑɹɡəɹɪt/ /-ət/ GA Proper noun ~ s en female Ancient Greek. V v Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;But I will rule both her, the king, and realm. en 1830 Mary Russell Mitford Our Village: Cottage Names Margaret, Marguerite - the pearl! the daisy! Oh name of romance and of minstrelsy, which brings the days of chivalry to mind, and the worship of flowers and ladies fair! I 3 Fair as a summer dream was Margaret,— / Such dream as in a poet's soul might start, / Musing of old loves while the moon doth set: en 1868 Bentley's Miscellany London 417 Amongst us English, the name is a greater favourite than with any other nation: but we have played upon it, and abused it oftener too. In no language does Margaret sound sweeter or homelier than in ours: not so Mag, Maggie, Meg, Madge, Moggie, Peg, Peggy, and abominable Piggy, of which abridgements only the two first are defensible. en May 30, 2008 Felicia R. Lee Harry Potter Prequel for Charity w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/30arts-HARRYPOTTERP_BRF.html The 800-word work (on a paper slightly bigger than a postcard) is one of 13 works submitted by a group of authors that includes Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood and Nick Hornby, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Rowling used both sides of her card to handwrite the prequel to her seven-book Potter series. https://web.archive.org/web/20230819160510/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/30arts-HARRYPOTTERP_BRF.html en 2012 w:Louise Erdrich The Round House 292 Corsair 2013 9781472108166 The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn. There was also a girl named Margaret, named after her grandmother, who worked at the post office. I ended up talking with Margaret. A river in southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of John Garrett Bussell, founder of Busselton. See en Margaret River. A river in Kimberley region, Western Australia, named for its European discoverer's sister-in-law. See en Margaret River. en Q18496 en astronomy A moon of Uranus, named for a character in Much Ado About Nothing. discovered 2003 en 2009 Richard Schmude, Jr. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them 58 https://books.google.com/books?id=47azIwooFqEC&pg=PA58 Astronomers discovered nine small moons lying outside the orbit of Oberon (Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret, Prospero, Setebos, and Ferdinand) between 1997 and 2003. en 2012 Peter Bond Exploring the Solar System 297 https://books.google.com/books?id=UIYcAqdH27wC&pg=PA297 The odd one out is Margaret, which travels in a "normal" prograde direction, though it has the most eccentric orbit of all the Uranian satellites. en 2013 David A. J. Seargent Weird Worlds: Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond 225 https://books.google.com/books?id=iflGAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA225 moons known to be moving in a prograde or direct orbit is Margaret, orbiting Uranus at an average distance of nearly nine million miles (14,845,000 km) in an orbit that currently exceeds all other Solar System moons in terms of eccentricity (0.7979).Margaret takes about 4.6 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the planet. Derived terms en Clee St Margaret Lake Margaret Margaret fish Margaret River<qq:town, winegrowing region> Margaretville Ormesby St Margaret Stanstead St Margarets St Margarets Augusta-Margaret Rivers St Margaret's at Cliffe St Margaret's Bay Stratton St Margaret Tivetshall St Margaret Related terms en common nouns margarine margarita margarite margherita Margherita marguerite en variants and pet forms of the given name Greta Gretchen Madge Mae Maggie Mags Maisie Margaery Marge Margery Margie Margo Margot Marguerite Marjorie Marjory May Meg Megan Meggie Megs Peg Peggy Rita Translations female given name Arabic: ar مَارْغَرِيت f Armenian: hy Մարգարիտ Belarusian: be Маргары́та f, be Ма́ргарэт f transliteration Breton: br Marc'harid f Bulgarian: bg Маргари́та f, bg Ма́ргарет f transliteration Catalan: ca Margarida Cherokee: chr ᎹᎦᏰᏘ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 瑪格麗特 Mǎgélìtè Czech: cs Markéta f Danish: da Margrethe Dutch: nl Margreet, nl Margriet Esperanto: eo Margareto Estonian: et Maret Faroese: fo Margreta f Finnish: fi Marketta French: fr Marguerite f Galician: gl Margarida f, gl Marga f German: de Margarete f Greek: el Μαργαρίτα f Greenlandic: kl Makkalitta Hawaiian: haw Makaleka Hebrew: he מַרְגָּלִית f margalít Hindi: hi मरवारीद m Hungarian: hu Margit Irish: ga Máiréad f, ga Máighréad f Italian: it Margherita f Japanese: ja マーガレット Māgaretto Korean: ko ^마가렛 Latin: la Margarita, la Margareta Latvian: lv Margarita f Lithuanian: lt Margarita f Macedonian: mk Маргари́та f Māori: mi Mākere Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Margareta m f, nb Margrethe m f Nynorsk: nn Margareta f, nn Margrethe f Occitan: oc Margarida f, oc Margalida f Ottawa: otw Maagii f Polish: pl Małgorzata f Portuguese: pt Margarida f, pt Margarete f Romanian: ro Margareta f Russian: ru Маргари́та f, ru Ма́ргарет f Márgarɛt transliteration Sami: Northern Sami: se Máret Scottish Gaelic: gd Mairead f, gd Maighread f Slovak: sk Margaréta f Slovene: sl Marjeta f Spanish: es Margarita f Swedish: sv Margareta Ukrainian: uk Маргари́та f, uk Ма́ргарет f transliteration Venetan: vec Malgarìta f Welsh: cy Marged f, cy Mererid f moon of Uranus Q18496 Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 天衛二十三 Tiānwèi èrshísān Japanese: ja マーガレット Māgaretto Polish: pl Margaret m-in See also en Daisy Pearl marguerite moggy Anagrams en aaegmrrt teragram en Moons of Uranus Cebuano ceb: Etymology ceb en Margaret, from the name of a legendary third century saint, borrowed from ceb fro Margaret, from ceb la Margarita, from ceb grc μαργαρίτης pearl. Proper noun ceb noun ceb female English < Ancient Greek ceb astronomy a moon of Uranus ceb Moons of Uranus Estonian et: Proper noun et proper noun et female of modern usage. Borrowed from et en - or shortened from et Margareeta Middle English Etymology enm fro Margaret, from enm la Margarita, from enm grc μαργαρίτης pearl, ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source. Proper noun en Margaret Descendants en Margaret yol Margraate References 1 Norwegian Bokmål nb: Alternative forms nb Margareth Proper noun nb proper noun m f nb female borrowed from nb en -, most used in the mid-twentieth century Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Alternative forms nn Margareth Proper noun nn proper noun f nn female borrowed from nn en -, most used in the mid-twentieth century Turkish tr:+ (uydu) Proper noun tr astronomy en Margaret tr Moons of Uranus