Lauretta

//ˌləˈɹɛtə// name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Latin.

    "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."

Etymology

An Italian pet form of Laura; first introduced into English as the name of one of the narrators in the Decameron.

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