Frederica

English

Alternative forms

• Fredericka

Proper noun

Frederica

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages, feminine form of Frederick. Quite rare in English.
   • 2007, Elinor Lipman, My Latest Grievance, →ISBN, page 16:

     And there was the basic yet awful matter of my name, Frederica Hatch, due to the unfortunate coincidence of a maternal grandmother named Frieda, who died six weeks before I was born, and a favorite paternal great-uncle Frederic, who'd been a Freedom Rider at eighty. - - - When I asked if an accidental boy would have been Frederic, they said no. It was Frederica they loved.

2. A town in Delaware

Related terms

• Freda
• Frieda

Translations

female given name

• Danish: Frederikke
• Finnish: Riikka (fi)
• French: Frédérique (fr)
• German: Friederike (de)
• Greek: Φρειδερίκη (el) f (Freideríki)
• Italian: Federica (it)
• Occitan: Frederica
• Swedish: Fredrika (sv)

Occitan

Proper noun

Frederica f (Limousin)

1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Frederic, equivalent to English Frederica

Further reading

• Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 307