Margarita

See also: margarita

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from the Latin and Spanish Margarita (“Margaret”).

Proper noun

Margarita (plural Margaritas)

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1874 December 26, Florence Marryat, “Fighting the Air”, in The Penny Despatch […], New Series, volume II, number 30, →OCLC, chapter XVI (Laurence Fane Is Ruined), page 474, column 1:

     “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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás

Proto-Iranian *mr̥gáhder.

Proto-Iranian *mŕ̥ga-ahri-ita-der.?

Ancient Greek μαργᾰρῑ́της (margărī́tēs)der.

Latin margarītader.

Spanish margaritabor.

English Margarita

Borrowed from Spanish margarita.

Noun

Margarita (countable and uncountable, plural Margaritas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of margarita.
   • 2008, 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”, in Hope for Newborns, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 207:

     Anyway, hope you don’t get this coz you’re off somewhere cool, sipping Margarita and getting over yourself.

   • 2009 April 10, “A Shot in the Dark”, in Louis Black, editor, The Austin Chronicle, volume 28, number 32, Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119, column 1:

     You: Gray hair, 50-ish, dark red button-up shirt, black pants, sipping Margarita alone at table.

   • 2019, B[everley] E. Jones, “Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona”, in Wilderness, London: Constable, published 2020, →ISBN, page 52:

     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 Latin Margarita, ultimately from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs). Cognate to English Margaret.

Proper noun

Margarita f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

Related terms

• Grēta, Grieta, Margita, Margrieta, Marita, Megija, Meta, Rita

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Margarita was the only given name of 3702 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɐrɡɐrʲɪˈtɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɐ
• Syllabification: Mar‧ga‧ri‧tà

Proper noun

Margarità f stress pattern 2

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Margaret

Declension

Declension of Margarità

	singular
nominative	Margarità
genitive	Margari̇̀tos
dative	Margari̇̀tai
accusative	Margari̇̀tą
instrumental	Margarità
locative	Margari̇̀toje
vocative	Margari̇̀ta

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɾɡaˈɾita/ [maɾ.ɣ̞aˈɾi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: Mar‧ga‧ri‧ta

Proper noun

Margarita f

1. a female given name meaning “Daisy”, equivalent to English Margaret

Descendants

• → English: Margarita

Proper noun

Margarita ?

1. Margarita (a town, a municipality of Bolívar department, Colombia)