What is the difference between lauretta and laura?
lauretta | laura | Related terms |
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* 1775 , St. Patrick's Day , Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1419148745, page 58
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* ~1591 William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet : Act II, Scene IV:
* 1960 Peter S. Beagle: A Fine And Private Place . Random House Publishing, 1982:The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle. ISBN 0345300815 page 258:
Laura is a related term of lauretta.
As proper nouns the difference between lauretta and laura
is that lauretta is {{given name|female|from=Latin}} while Laura is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}.As a noun laura is
a number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.lauretta
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Alternative forms
* LorettaProper noun
(en proper noun)- 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.
laura
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(wikipedia Laura)Alternative forms
* Lora (rare)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in; Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her;
- Laura was saying something. A mellifluous name, he thought. I wish she were far away, so I could call her.
