Patricia - What does it mean?
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* 1904 , Patty at Home , BiblioBazaar ,LLC( 2007), ISBN 1434621162, page 36:
* 1991 , Heat And Other Stories , Dutton , ISBN 0525933301:
patricia
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - Our house is not of the era of Queen Isabella, but of the Princess Patricia ."
- "That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always call me Patricia' there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called ' Patricia ? Patty is such a baby name."
- "Patty is good enough for me," said Mr. Fairfield. "If you want to be called Patricia', you must get somebody else to do it. I dare say you could hire somebody for a small sum per week to call you ' Patricia for a given number of times every day."
- "Now, you're making fun of me, papa; but I do want to grow up dignified, and not be a silly schoolgirl all my life."
- "Trix" was a derivation of Trish, our mother's girlhood name, or cognomen, as she called it; Trish was itself a derivation of Patricia . Trix disliked her original name because she thought it prissy and old-fashioned, but she didn't much like "Trix" either.