Dimity
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See also: dimity
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The given name is apparently from the name of the light cotton fabric, dimity. However, since it is found primarily as an Irish name, it may have originated as a feminine equivalent of Dermot.[1]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Surname”)
Proper noun[edit]
Dimity
- A female given name of modern usage.
- A surname.
- 1843, N. P. Willis, “Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour”, in George R. Graham, Rufus W. Griswold, editors, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volumes 22-23, page 134:
- The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line.
References[edit]
- ^ Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, Kate Hardcastle, editor (2006) “Dimity”, in A Dictionary of First Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 76–77.