Lauretta
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]An Italian pet form of Laura; first introduced into English as the name of one of the narrators in the Decameron.
Proper noun
[edit]Lauretta
- A female given name from Latin.
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 58:
- Lauretta, ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names; if you had called her Deborah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.