Patricia
/pəˈtɹɪʃə/
Patricia proper noun: a female given name from Latin.
Proper noun
Patricia
- A female given name from Latin.
- "[…] Our house is not of the era of Queen Isabella, but of the Princess Patricia."
"That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always called me Patricia there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called Patricia? Patty is such a baby name."
"Patty is good enough for me,"...1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 56 - "Trix" was a derivation of Trish, our mother's girlhood name, or cognomen, as she called it; Trish was itself a derivation of Patricia. Trix disliked her original name because she thought it prissy and old-fashioned, but she didn't much like "Trix" either.1991, Joyce Carol Oates, Heat And Other Stories, Dutton, →ISBN
- "[…] Our house is not of the era of Queen Isabella, but of the Princess Patricia."
Origin of Patricia
From Latin patricia (“noble”); later also seen as the feminine form of the saint's name Patrick.
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Phrases with Patricia
Words that rhyme with Patricia
Questions about Patricia
- What does Patricia mean?
- Patricia means a female given name from Latin.
- What part of speech is Patricia?
- Patricia is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Patricia?
- Patricia is pronounced /pəˈtɹɪʃə/.
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